Two independent parity computations must be used in order to provide protection against double disk failure. Two different algorithms are employed to achieve this purpose. RAID Level 6 requires a minimum of 4 drives to implement |
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Raid6好像也是去年接触到得,现在越来越多存储厂商支持,优势就是可以同时坏两块硬盘,目前磁盘阵列得趋势是SATA,由于SATA硬盘内核就是IDE,因而较容易损坏,Raid6和刚出炉得Raid7 RaidTP是使SATA阵列生存和发展的基础。