On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:15:33PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:09, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > Michael Stone writes: > > > > > I still don't follow that. Why would the RAID level matter? IOW, are you > > > actually wanting 2 spares, or are you just stick with that because you > > > need a factor of two disks for your mirrors? > > > > RAID 10 needs pairs.. so we can either have no spares or 2 spares. > > Spares are placed in service one at a time. You don't need 2 spares for > RAID 10, trust me. Sadly, 3ware doesn't produce any controllers with the ability to do an odd number of channels, so you end up burning through 2 slots to get a hot spare (unless you spend substantially more money and go with the next model up). -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
