<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/23 Another Sillyname <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anothersname@googlemail.com">anothersname@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/10/23 Mache Creeger <<a href="mailto:mache@creeger.com">mache@creeger.com</a>>:<br>
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Given the amount of time it would take even a hardware controller to<br>
reconstruct a 2TB drive you'd be unwise to use them.<br>
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750GB drives using a decent hardware controller take about 30 hours to<br>
reconstruct a failed drive under raid 6.....this means you have a<br>
'failure window' of those 30 hours when a 2nd failure kills you. I<br>
can't imagine I'd even want this 'failure window' to be in the 72+<br>
hour timeframe.</blockquote><div><br>Erm, if it's raid 6, wouldn't you need 3 drives to fail for it to kill you?<br><br></div></div><br></div>