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RAID 6
Last edited by anonymous on January 7, 2011
RAID 6 is almost the same as RAID 5 but it can sustain 2 drives losses instead of 1. RAID 6 requires at least 4 drives to operate and will continue to work even if two drives are missing. RAID 6 is best used for mission critical applications. The greater the total number of drives the more efficient the array becomes. Storage can be calculated by adding up the total number of drives in the array and subtracting two drives. For example, if there are four 500GB drives in the array there would be 1TB of available storage.
