Well don't get RAID 10 confused with RAID0+1. With RAID10 your stripped set wouldn't fail unless both drives of a single mirrored set failed, since RAID 10 is a stripped set of mirrored drives. RAID 1+0 is two stipped sets mirrored together and here one of the stripped sets would fail if a single drive failed.

I use RAID 0 in my home PC because I want the pure performance of a stripped set, and I'm a risk taker... ;-)




On 6/5/07, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer@vitalsite.com> wrote:
True.  I missed that on the RAID 0 as opposed to RAID 1.
 
Also, you would probable be surprised at the number of places that use the RAID 6 or RAID ADG in a mirrored configuration.  It is not a fast or speedy  solution.  Remember that RAID 6 or RAID ADG is the SLOWEST RAID as far as performance is concerned.  With RAID 10 you still open yourself up to vulnerability when a drive fails on your stripeset which causes your stripeset to fail.  Since it is mirrored you are fine unless you have a failure on your mirrored stripeset.  Personally, I don't like to use RAID 0 at anytime because it has no resiliency when it comes to disk failures.  I would rather have the RAID 5 at a minimum for any single disk LUN and then use RAID 1 for additional redundancy.  But generally I work with companies that are willing to spend the money for that configuration along with having controllers with the maximum read/write cache to compensate for the speed.