<p>RAID 10 is the pair <em>striped + mirror</em>: the data is cut into chunks and dealt across the members (<a href="striping.html">striping</a>), and each chunk is stored twice, on two different disks (<a href="mirroring.html">mirroring</a>). In Linux <code>md</code> it is one level, not a nesting: "every datablock is duplicated some number of times, and the resulting collection of datablocks are distributed over multiple drives". Where the second copy lands is the placement <a href="algorithm.html">algorithm</a>, <em>near</em>, <em>far</em> or <em>offset</em>; near, the default, puts the two copies side by side in the same stripe, which is the same arrangement a hardware controller reaches in a different way, by striping over mirror pairs. That nested form, RAID 1+0, has its own page; with the near layout the two put every block in the same place, and the difference is which engine built it and which other layouts it can offer. RAID 0+1, a mirror of two stripes, uses the same disks in a worse arrangement, and its page says why.</p>
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