Re: 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

[Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under
>>ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc?
>
> This comes up often:)
> Things to keep in mind when using large discs if you suffer a failure,
> while rebuilding in a degraded state it's not impossible or unlikely to
> drop another disc loosing it all.
>
> Rebuild times especially on busy arrays with large discs take lots of
> time...
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Thanks Joseph!

In your opinion, if we are talking about 15 2-TB disks what does "lots
of time" translate to?

Boris.
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