Ciro Iriarte wrote: > Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 > but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to > mention a UPS in my letter to Santa....) > > Anybody knows if the raid5 (md) would survive this scenario?
A RAID5 will survive a single-disk failure. I believe RAID6 can deal with a dual-disk failure, but you'll need more disks. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
