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I never had a raid-card that could handle raid 1 with more then 2 drives. so ... And what is wrong with my raid-6??? I was trieing to say that raid-5 has one drive for its parity, and raid-6 has 2 drives for parity. As wikipedia says: RAID 5: Block-level striping with distributed parity. RAID 6: Block-level striping with double distributed parity.
– Mad_piggy
Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 8:56
I'll update my answer.
– m4573r
Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 9:03
I've seen an example of mdadm (linux software raid) using 8 drives in a raid 1, or rather the first small partition on 8 drives as a raid 1. This stored the system drive. The big partition on each drive was than grouped in to a RAID 6 array. I've not seen a linux distro that will boot from a software raid 5 or 6.
– BeowulfNode42
Commented Dec 16, 2013 at 12:00

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