On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matt...@flymine.org> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> RAID6 is basically RAID5 with a hot spare already built into the >> array. > > On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Pierre C wrote: >> >> As others said, RAID6 is RAID5 + a hot spare. > > No. RAID6 is NOT RAID5 plus a hot spare.
The original phrase was that RAID 6 was like RAID 5 with a hot spare ALREADY BUILT IN. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
