Linux RAID Smackdown: Crush RAID 5 with RAID 10 Aug 14, 2008, 23 :02 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (7745 reads) (Other stories by Carla Schroder)
"I'll sum up the basic differences:
"RAID10 provides superior data security and can survive multiple disk failures
RAID10 is fast
RAID10 is considerably faster during recovery— RAID5 performance during a rebuild after replacing a failed disk bogs down as much as 80%, and it can take hours. RAID10 recovery is simple copying.
RAID5 is susceptible to perpetuating parity and other errors"
