On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:31 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > so long as you didn't have any non-detectable disk errors before > > removing the disk, or any drive failure while one of the drives were > > removed. And the deterioration in performance while each disk was > > removed in turn might take more time than its worth. Of course RAID 1 > > wouldn't suffer from this (with >2 disks)... > > Raid 6. Two disks can go down. > not that I know enough about RAID to comment on this page, but you might find it interesting: http://www.baarf.com/ specifically: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender. -- Anne Boleyn
