SATA RAID 10 inquiry

[Fx02]

I'm in the process of intergrating my lab from a H/W RAID 5 to SATA RAID 10. My question is, what's the intergrity- and so forth...

Does anyone have opnions on adding a additional RAID volume from RAID 5 to RAID 10. Any opinions would be great!

 

[Fx02]

Any help would be great fellas!

 

[SKiTLz]

Charcteristics
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RAID 10 is implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 arrays


RAID 10 has the same fault tolerance as RAID level 1


RAID 10 has the same overhead for fault-tolerance as mirroring alone


High I/O rates are achieved by striping RAID 1 segments


Under certain circumstances, RAID 10 array can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failures


Excellent solution for sites that would have otherwise gone with RAID 1 but need some additional performance boost

Disadvantages
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Very expensive / High overhead


All drives must move in parallel to proper track lowering sustained performance


Very limited scalability at a very high inherent cost

Source: http://www.acnc.com/04_01_10.html

You asked for opinions but my Raid knowledge isnt the greatest, so instead I'll steal someone elses..