[Novalug] best hard disk setup for home file server?

[Aaron Porter]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> Again, you only need 2 disks for RAID-0+1.  You stripe and then
> mirror to the other disk that does not contain the stripe.  It can survive
> one disk failure.

That's not (really) true. For RAID10 you need 4 block devices (could
be all on one disk, but seriously...) -- RAID10 is STRIPED and
MIRRORED, so you need at least 2 devices to MIRROR and at least 2
MIRRORS to STRIPE. A 3 legged monstrosity could be some ugly
combination of a RAID1 + RAID0 or A RAID0 + RAID1, but  would not
really be striped & mirrored.