Robin H. Johnson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:44:41 -0800:
> The 6x146GB is overkill for storage, unless you have some other plans > that I'm not aware of (I'm assuming RAID5 with a hot-spare, so 4x146GB > usable). 6x72GB might be more suitable for the budget. As I just RAID-ed my main system, and have the info fresh... If the capacity is there, go RAID6 (dual parity RAID5, so two drives can drop out without the thing dieing) with a hot-spare as well, so threex146GB usable. In any case, I'd go RAID6 with no hot-spare over RAID5 with a hot-spare, as it's effectively the same thing, only with RAID6, you can lose two at once without dieing, instead of only one -- and you hope the second waits to die at least until the hot-spare gets synced. This of course assumes software RAID, as RAID6 is certainly a kernel option. If it's hardware RAID, you of course go with the capacities the hardware supplies, and I'd guess RAID6 is a less common option, certainly less commonly known. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
