Home RAID question

[Kenneth Burgener]

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> As has been mentioned in the past, RAID 10 (or is it 0+1 -- I can't
> remember) can give you many of the benefits of RAID 5 but is simpler in
> some ways.  Basically the desired configuration is a striping across 2
> or more RAID-1 (mirrored) sets.  


If I understood RAID 0+1, all it is is a mirrored stripped set.  That
would mean I would still be loosing 50% of my disk capacity.  RAID 5
only has a 30% lose of disk capacity.  Even better is RAID 0, with 0%
loss of disk capacity.  I am not worried too much about redundancy, but
I would like to at least have the ability to save some files if one disk
begins to slowly die.

Kenneth