<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:47 AM, James Oltman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnlibmyth@gmail.com">cnlibmyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just be sure to get good quality hardware/cables. I'm currently suffering through an array loss due to either faulty PCI cards, cables, or possibly a bad drive/s. I had a drive go out in my RAID 5 and sent it to Seagate for an RMA. They took their sweet time getting one back to me. The very same day the replacement arrived, the array took another dump. I wasn't able to get it to resync.</blockquote>
<div><br>That is the danger of RAID5. It degrades to RAID0 so you are really vulnerable until it has resync'd with the new drive. If you don't have a way of backing up your array I'd recommend against RAID5 - go with RAID6 or RAID10 instead.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>