Matthias Urlichs <smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, David Liontooth wrote: >> * define 4 pairs of RAID 1 with an 8-port 3ware 9500S card * the OS will > Hmm. You'd have eight disks, five(!) may fail at any time, giving you Four, isn't it? RAID6 covers the failure of 2 of the underlying RAID1s, which, in turn, means failures of 2 disks each, so four. Sometimes even 5, yes - given the right ones fail. regards Mario -- We are the Bore. Resistance is futile. You will be bored. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
