Tavis,
Once we get raid groups above 10 or so then we start using the double disk parity. That way you have to lose 3 disks in a raid group before you have data loss. I think this was available in 6.5 and above.
- jay
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Tavis Gustafson Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:29 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: raidsize recommendations
I usually setup my filers with raidsize=7 having no more than 7 disks per volume. However, I would like create a raidsize=13 volume. The only risk i can glean from NOW is that rebuild time will increase and thus increase the chances of a second drive failure (during rebuild).
Has anyone had any real world issues with using volumes of raidsize > 10
thanks, -Tavis