Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

[Sven Kirmess]

 Hi Bill,

Thursday, March 30, 2000, 4:36:52 PM, you wrote:

> I've been thinking about this for a different project, how bad would
> it be to setup RAID 5 to allow for 2 (or more) failures in an array?
> Or is this handled under a different class of RAID (ignoring things
> like RAID 5 over mirrored disks and such).

Raid 6 is exactly what you are looking for. Raid 5 with double parity
info. You lose 2 disks of N.

http://www.raid5.com/raid6.html


Or you may just take Raid 7 http://www.raid5.com/raid7.html ... Sounds
great. :-)



 Sven