@ceejay: From my experience raid 5 (better raid 6) is vital when you have a certain number of drives. during the last 4 years I had about 2 drive faliures a year on a total amount of about 15 drives running in total. This seems to be true regarless what kind of drive generation or manufacturer you have. I just can speak about PATA, no experience with SCSI which might be better but is out of my budget.
This failure rate was a surprise to me as I never had a drive failure on my desktop computers a decade ago. For me the explanation is, that 24/7 has an impact and the presence of so many drives also raises the chance to see a drive failure. If these drives are on raid 5 I would have lost my media archive each year. This may be different on a baby NAS with 4 drives that only runs a few hours a day, but in larger setups raid 5 is a must, from my point of view. -- docbee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ docbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18555 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
