[Gllug] Multiple Raid Levels On Sarge

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Thu Sep 28 19:01:47 UTC 2006


On Sep 28, 06:06, James Roberts wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Jim Bailey wrote:
> 
> >I supposed after all that what I am asking is can people see any gotchas
> >with this I am unsure of the reliability of the two raid 5 partitions and
> >or write performance.
> 
> I'd *really* want a hot spare on each array there. You are looking at 
> MTBF/6 at best. I have had two near-simultaneous failures in RAID5 (on 
> SCSI) more than once, and on PATA have lost data that way.

Not practical this is backup storage will be monitoring the system for
disk errors and can in an emergency float it off to the archive space on
a Pillar NAS.

What I would really like is another Coraid shelf for this but it isn't
going to happen anytime soon.

This is about recycling old hardware and using new disks to get a better
than before solution.

-- 
Peace Jim :-)

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