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by aidenn0 3613 days ago
RAID6 is unusable for many types of "always on" data, in particular databases backing high volume sites; the performance drops so much during a rebuild that for many uses it might as well be offline.
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Then you use mirrors, you can apply a similar calculation there. Lower price per disk means you can put more disks in each mirror and compensate for lower per-disk reliability.

Obviously the type of redundancy used will depend on your specific application requirements, including performance.