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In response to "hm.. well question.." by colin

It is. The message is that because the drives are so large now, the time it takes to repair a damaged array when a drive goes bad

Posted by kilboooo (aka kkuphal) Nov 3 '08, 12:28

is getting so large that you are far more likely to experience a failure in a second drive (not total crash, but even a small unrecoverable read error) during the rebuild. RAID 5 can handle 1 error at a time. 2 and you lose everything.

RAID is for surviving hardware failures. Nothing is better than a good backup

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okay. so i guess just keeping my external hard drives will be the way to go. -- nm - colin Nov 3, 12:32 1
- Those will fail someday too -- nm - kilboooo Nov 3, 12:40

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It is. The message is that because the drives are so large now, the time it takes to repair a damaged array when a drive goes bad

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