We have never seen that. We always use raid 6 for both our VTL AND DASD products with multiple hot spares.
Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Grant Taylor > <0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On 7/7/20 12:41 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: >> Has anybody else heard this? > > I've heard of and have experienced this multiple times. > > The stress of rebuilding can push other marginal drives over the edge. > > This is why RAID with multiple parity drives is now critical. Especially with > larger and larger drives taking longer and longer to recover. > > I usually have two, sometimes three, parity drives. > > I know that they aren't dedicated parity drives any more and that the parity > and data is mixed on multiple drives. But calling them parity drives is > convenient. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
