On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Tim wrote:
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
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.
Perhaps providing the computations rather than the conclusions would
be more persuasive on a technical list ;>
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