RAID 10 with OS X Raid Assistant on Big Sur - Any Downsides?

Lifewire published an article about creating a RAID 10 array using OS X Raid Assistant in Big Sur..

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-raid-10-2260274


It says: "Creating a RAID 10 array in Disk Utility requires you to first create two pairs of RAID 1 (Mirror) arrays, and then use them as the two volumes to be combined into a RAID 0 (Striped) array."


I have created a RAID 10 array with 4x Seagate Exos 16TB in an OWC ThunderBolt 4 enclosure. It appears to function as expected and performs very well. This will be the primary backup for a Synology NAS.


I chose OS X RAID vs SoftRAID to eliminate dependency on 3rd party software.


Does anyone see a potential downside to using nested OS X RAID arrays in this fashion???


Thanks for any comments. Ron

Posted on Sep 17, 2021 5:45 PM

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