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                        <title>8-disk volumes</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/8-disk-volumes/#post-3543</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[At present, you can only use 8 disks with a single disk for redundancy. We are working on a RAID 6 version that would support this, but it is not ready yet.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[At present, you can only use 8 disks with a single disk for redundancy. We are working on a RAID 6 version that would support this, but it is not ready yet.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>8-disk volumes</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/8-disk-volumes/#post-699</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;d like to create a raid volume from 8 disks using softraid.    If I create a single raid 4 or 5 volume, the space efficiency is high (7/8), but only a single disk failure can be tolerated....]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'd like to create a raid volume from 8 disks using softraid.    If I create a single raid 4 or 5 volume, the space efficiency is high (7/8), but only a single disk failure can be tolerated.   If I create a raid 1+0 volume, the space efficiency is low (1/2), but 4 disk failures can be tolerated.   I'd like something between this.  I can accomplish this creating a raid 4 or 5 volume for 4 disks at a time.  This gives me space efficiency of 3/4, and 2 disk failures can be tolerated (though of course not any two of the eight, but that's ok), which would be fine as a level of redundancy for me.    But this latter solution produces two separate volumes, across which I have to distribute (and manage) my data.   I'd like to have a single volume from the 8 disks with something like this level of redundancy / space efficiency.   How can I achieve this with softraid?   Thanks.]]></content:encoded>
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