On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Maurice Volaski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I have 16 disks in RAID 5 and I'm not worried.
>
> >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
>
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>
> Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
> Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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You could also be driving your car down the freeway at 100mph drunk, high,
and without a seatbelt on and not be worried.  The odds will still be
horribly against you.
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