[ale] If your using large Sata drives in raid 5/6 ....

[Brian Pitts]

On 02/02/2010 05:45 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> This is why I steered away from RAID5 and 6 for the file server I built 
> for my employer.  I intended to have a "big slow" SATA array and a 
> "small fast" SAS array - I planned to use 1+0 for the latter and 5 for 
> the former, but when I began looking into this issue I got skittish and 
> decided to go 1+0 for the big slow array as well.

I'm curious, if you're worried about bad sectors in the "big slow" array
why not RAID 6 (if you have at least 4 drives) or 6+0 (if you have at
least 8 drives)?

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All the best,
Brian Pitts