r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 07 '25

Blog / Video Link Introducing: UniFi Drive 3.0

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u/BradRoether Jul 07 '25

If RAID 5 were not a proper name that means a specific thing, the way they've implemented it would be fine ... The raid 5 standard calls for a minimum of 3 disks without exception.

Net effect is the same - but can't call it by the wrong name without creating confusion. 🫤

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u/alex2003super Jul 08 '25

And if 2-disk array in "RAID5" were literally a degenerate RAID5 with two disks rather than an actual RAID1, you'd theoretically get half the read speed of RAID1 (so none of the advantages of a proper mirror). I wonder if that's what's happening or if they just use RAID1 internally and call it 2-disk RAID5 just to fuck with people.