On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:30:41PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > I beleive using 22 drives in a single RAID-5 is something like BASE jumping with a large umbrella. You should at least use RAID-6, and perhaps even split up the RAID into smaller ones. Point taken, but this is actually a large dataset which could be recreated if necessary (i.e. it's derived from other data), and is also to be copied to another server. -- 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