On 1/3/11 2:17 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 12/30/10 12:40, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> I am concerned that in the event a drive fails, I won't be able to >> repair the disks in time before another actually fails. > > An old trick to avoid that is to buy drives from different series or > manufacturers (the theory is that identical drives tend to fail at the > same time), but this may not be applicable if you have 5 drives in a > volume :) Still, you can try playing with RAIDZ levels and probabilities. >
That's sound advice, although one also hears that they should get devices from the same vendor for maximum compatibility -.- Ah well, next time ;) A piece of advice I shall heed though is using 1% less capacity than what the disks really provide, in case one day I have to swap a drive and its replacement is a few kbytes smaller (thus preventing a rebuild). _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
