On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 12:49 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Performance is a nightmare, but if you have a lot of data it is still
> viable. And I have been saved too many times from drive failures. "Oh,
> drive failed huh, well good thing it kicked in and rebuilt on the hot
> spare, I will order a new one this week and oh look no down time." :)
----
I stopped using RAID-5 about 3 years ago. Performance sucks.

Even if all you want to do is to online a spare, it puts your RAID-5
into danger zone...

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3839636

Craig




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