A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Mon Aug 20 17:10:49 PDT 2007


Artem Kuchin wrote:
>
> So, no raid5 or even raid 6 for me any more. Never!
> 
> 

A better policy is to invest in a higher quality RAID controller.
Also, always use a battery backup on the controller, and always have
an extra disk configured as a hot spare.  Data integrity is expensive,
unfortunately.

Scott


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