On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure you're already aware, but if not, 22 drives in a raid-6 is > absolutely SUICIDE when using SATA disks. 12 disks is the upper end of what > you want even with raid-6. The odds of you losing data in a 22 disk raid-6 > is far too great to be worth it if you care about your data. /rant
Funny, I was thinking the same thing! I think NetApp says to use 14 disk stripes with their double parity, arguing that double parity across 14 disks is better protection than two single parity stripes of 7. The other thought that I had if ZFS would have worked for him, but it sounds like he's a Windows guy. ... and to threadjack, has there been any talk of a Windows ZFS driver? -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
