Sam,
I think using N=2 and RAID0 might be playing it a little fast and loose.
You may only have 4 machines but since each has 24 disks you're looking at
4*24=96 disks. Given that one failed disk takes out an entire machine I
wonder the probability of 2 disks failing on two different machines whi
(not actually raccoons but I wanted a fourth R)
We have (not yet, but we will soon) 4 servers with 24x1TB raw data drives
(OS on ssd). These servers will be providing static object storage
(specifically, photos). Performance isn't important since all the data will
be stored by a CDN sitting in fro