[olug] RAID chassis recommendations

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Tue Jul 10 20:50:05 UTC 2012


> On a side note, here is a good article why you should not run RAID 5 (or RAID 6), especially at the sizes you are talking about.
> http://www.datamation.com/storage/data-storage-the-myth-of-redundancy-1.html

Curious that in 20 years as a professional sysadmin (sometimes managing
hundreds of TB under RAID 5 and replacing failed drives weekly), I've
never experienced reliability problems with RAID 5...

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