My storage server at work has three RAIDZ3's, each with 12 drives plus two hot spares. I use Western Digital RE4's. In the two years I've been using this configuration, I've never had more than one drive go bad at a time.
At home I have a RAIDZ1 using 5 WD Caviar Green 1TB drives. Not a single disc error in over two years. IMO, a six disk RAIDZ3 is beyond overkill. Make each group a RAIDZ1 with a hot spare, or a RAIDZ2 with a shelf spare if you can't spare the extra drive slots. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
