Wouldn't you be better served by running raid6 with a single hot spare? Running raid5 with data drives at 1tb or larger is a nightmare no matter how many hot spares you have...
-Anders Sent from my iPhone On 7 apr 2011, at 20:43, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: > I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that I > have two hotspares in my servers. > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 > > No hot spare. > John W. Cook > Systems Administrator > Partnership for Strong Families > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011 > Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 > > If you don't have a hot spare then NO! > > If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous > drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the > drive you already replaced... > > I'd recommend against it. > > -sc > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] >> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 >> >> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely > failed and >> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I > replaced >> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has > an >> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the > other >> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really > don't want to >> drive back out here just to swap a drive out. >> John W. Cook >> Systems Administrator >> Partnership for Strong Families > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
