[mythtv-users] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

[Ian Clark]

2008/10/23 Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com>

> 2008/10/23 Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com>:
> > From Slashdot
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> Given the amount of time it would take even a hardware controller to
> reconstruct a 2TB drive you'd be unwise to use them.
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> 750GB drives using a decent hardware controller take about 30 hours to
> reconstruct a failed drive under raid 6.....this means you have a
> 'failure window' of those 30 hours when a 2nd failure kills you.  I
> can't imagine I'd even want this 'failure window' to be in the 72+
> hour timeframe.


Erm, if it's raid 6, wouldn't you need 3 drives to fail for it to kill you?
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