----- Opprinnelig melding ----- > 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. Still, better use raid-6 + 1 spare than raid-5 + 2 spares. It will probably take a while to rebuild the data on that one in case of a double disk failure, and with that amount of drives, the chances are pretty decent. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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
