Hello Reindl, All Thanks for your reply. I do understand that. Could you please help me understand how much hit can the write takes in such a scenario. Any resources on how to benchmark this ? On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:30 AM Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Am 19.10.22 um 21:30 schrieb Umang Agarwalla: > > Hello all, > > > > We run Linux RAID 10 in our production with 8 SAS HDDs 7200RPM. > > We recently got to know from the application owners that the writes on > > these machines get affected when there is one failed drive in this > > RAID10 setup, but unfortunately we do not have much data around to > > prove this and exactly replicate this in production. > > > > Wanted to know from the people of this mailing list if they have ever > > come across any such issues. > > Theoretically as per my understanding a RAID10 with even a failed > > drive should be able to handle all the production traffic without any > > issues. Please let me know if my understanding of this is correct or > > not. > > "without any issue" is nonsense by common sense