Software RAID 10 on Linux - Server Fault
serverfault.com › questions › 139558The software RAID10 driver has a number of options for tweaking block layout that can bring further performance benefits depending on your I/O load pattern (see here for some simple benchmarks) though I'm not aware of any distributions that support this for of RAID 10 from install yet (only the more traditional nested arrangement). If you want to try the RAID10 driver, and your distro doesn't support it at install time, you could install the entire base system into a RAID1 array as described ...