2007/10/26, Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > Well, i'm not talking about a phisical failure, but logical failure of the array, the kind of failure that would require a rebuild of the array...
Regards, Ciro
