[LAU] AVLinux question

[Florian Faber]

Joe Hartley wrote:

> You beat me to this, Arnold.  The only thing I'd use RAID 5 for is an 
> array of disks where performance really doesn't matter to me, like a
> disk-based backup server.  I'd never use RAID 5 on a system where
> performance mattered at all to me, like my studio machine!

RAID5 is not a good idea. Hard discs fail mostly due to environmental
causes, and if one drive fails, it is very likely that another will fail
soon, too. Probably while recalculating after replacing the failed disk
(or switching to the hot spare). You should at least use RAID6.


Flo
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