On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> PS, if in the end I have to build a new array, I'll probably go with a >> raid 6 instead. > > Agreed, someone recently posted that for a raid-5 composed of 1TB > drives the odds of a rebuild failure are 1 in 67 even if the remaining > drives are within spec. (ie. the unrecoverable bit error rate is > slowing succumbing to the ever increasing size of drives.) Has anyone done similar calculation for raid-6? > > Greg -- 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
