RAID60 - Is it worth it?

[nitrobass24]

So currently I have 5x 2TB hitachis in a RAID6 and its been working great.
I just bought another 5 disks and was thinking of just expanding to a 10 drive R6, but then i thought maybe i should do a RAID60 gives me slightly better redundancy.
Although im not sure its worth the disks overhead.

Thoughts?

 

[drescherjm]

Do you really want 4 of your 10 drives to be used for redundancy? I would not bother. 2 drives is enough as long as you monitor the situation at do not let the array degrade past 1 missing disk.

 

[YellowSnow]

Stick with RAID 6 but make sure you're backup regime is bullet proof. Not because RAID 6 is dangerous, but because your backups are more important than how redundent your RAID array is.