> Or use Raid 10

RAID 10 would give only 6 drives' worth of space.  What I have gives
10; RAID 5 across all 12 would give 11.

> I don't know if I would run a Raid5 with 12 drives (Raid5 tolerate
> only one drive failure).

That's why we have a cold spare.

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