[Gllug] [OT] Re: cheap disk source

[John Hearns]

James Roberts wrote:
> 
> John,
 > may I ask: what are your uptime views on RAID6 no hot spare -vs- RAID5 +
 > hot spare?
 >
 > MeJ

Talking about RAID6, I recently built a backup server for a customer.
Standard chassis plus a set of SATA drives, 3ware controller with a 
RAID6 configuration. It uses dirvish to take nightly backups of a 2Tbyte 
RAID array. Its working fine.




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