On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:20:57PM -0700, Sateesh Mucharla wrote:
I am buying a F760 with 35 drives (all 36GB).
manual), i am thinking of having two raid groups one with 26 and the other with 7 drives. Rest two will be hot spares. But i am open for better configuration.
I would like to know whether i can configure all 33 drives into one raid group - Is that possible? If so what are the disadvantages. (With 33 drives in one raid group, i loose only one drive as a parity drive - this is an advantage).
Can somebody suggest a better configuration ?
everyone else has detailed good reasons why you don't want to do this. not knowing what your requirements are, i would suggest :
(safer way) 1 raid group of 2 disks (root) 1 spare 2 groups of 11 1 group of 10
------ (riskier but slightly more disk available) 1 raid group of 2 (root) 1 spare 2 groups of 16
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remember, you can have multiple raid groups per volume
-s