> I would recommend setting this to 180 seconds. Yes, and that's what I've done ! Not 30 seconds, but 3 minutes, you're right. Sorry :) > RAID6, preferrably with a spare. I'm not comfortable with RAID 6 setup. What is the minimal number of hard drives for having a RAID 6 + spare ? > Also save mdadm --examine and smartctl -a from all drives at each start (or > at least after every time you've done a change to the array) Very good. I'll had this. > I would also recommend having a recent enough kernel so you can do in-place > replacement. I believe this is 3.3 and later. Checked : 3.7, so that's OK. gUI -- Pour la santé de votre ordinateur, préférez les logiciels libres. Lire son mail : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/thunderbird/ Browser le web : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/firefox/ Suite bureautique : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ -- 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