Cry wrote:
Supermicro SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1 Hot-Swapable SATA HDD Enclosure http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm and building a raid-6 array. I'll convert the surviving drives into a backup for the primary array. Any feedback on the above? Is there a suggestion on an inexpensive controller to give more SATA ports that is very software raid compatible?
I've got 5 of those enclosures with Maxtor Maxline-II drives in them. I've had them all running between 3 & 4 years now and I've been *extremely* happy with the enclosures. The whole lot are running on 7 Promise SATA150TX4 cards. So I'd certainly be happy with the enclosures, however I tend to agree with what David said below about going for the higher grade drives. I paid a bit extra for the Maxline-II drives over the desktop grade disks, and I've got 27 of them with about 30,000 hours on them now. One early life failure (in the 1st 5 hours) and one recently replaced as it was growing defects.. but the 26 remaining drives are solid.
Oh, 15 drives are in a RAID-6 and 10 are in a RAID-5. I plan to replace the 10 drive RAID-5 with 10 1TB drives in a RAID-6 in the not to distant future. I did have a dual drive failure on the RAID-6 (not actually drive related, but a software glitch) and having the RAID-6 saved the data nicely.
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