Yeechang Lee wrote:
[Also posted to
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware.]
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives [...]
I'm of the opinion that more drives means more chance of failure, but
maybe it's just me. I got bitten with a 2-drive failure once in an 8-drive
RAID-5 set a couple of years ago. Fortunately with the aid of mdadm, etc.
and having direct access to the drives rather than having them hidden away
behind some hardware device I was able to recover the data that time, and
now SMART is getting cleverer ... Howerver ...
Did you consider RAID-6?
I've been using it for some time now (over a year?)
But maybe drives are becoming more reliable though - not lost a drive in
the past year!
Gordon
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