-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/13/09 6:04 PM, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Do not use RAID5 or RAID6 for anything at all. Ever. For any reason. > > * The alternative, RAID1 or RAID10, is negligably more expensive, even for > home use. > * RAID5/6 is slower, especially on writes. > * The larger the drive, the more likely that rebuilds will fail. My own > recent experience with >1TB drives has been that a 4-drive array will > rebuild itself into something usable a bit less than half the time. > * Rebuilds will silently spread any data corruption across all drives in the > array (and the chances of such small amounts of silent data corruption are > high, and increasing). > > Reference: http://baarf.com Related info from a cnet article from a while back - http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 Brian - -- - ---[Office 73.0F]--[Outside 56.3F]--[Server 104.2F]--[Coaster 73.0F]--- Software, Linux, Microcontrollers http://www.brianlane.com AIS Parser SDK http://www.aisparser.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Remember Lexington Green! iD8DBQFK172VIftj/pcSws0RAuSyAJwNKmclQtqBFe/GX5e/kKvC1xXlfQCffC66 zhwMmPKdYc+SpTLUGDtBQl8= =Uto5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
