On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Eric Andersen wrote:
2. Taking into account the above, it's a great deal easier on the pocket book to expand two drives at a time instead of four at a time. As bigger drives are always getting cheaper, I feel that I have a lot more flexibility with mirrors when it comes to expanding. If you have limitless physical space for drives, you might feel differently.
I agree with your arguments. Just make sure that you have a way to expand a mirror pair without losing redundancy. For example, make sure that there is a way to add a new device to act as the replacement without taking existing devices off line. Otherwise there is some possibility of data loss during the replacement.
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