Reminder -- RAID 5 is not your friend

[kentborg-KwkGvOEf1og at public.gmane.org (Kent Borg)]

Richard Pieri wrote:
> Indeed, they are, as are the other 2 good (for the moment) drives. The
> controller is currently rebuilding the mirrors. Once that's finished
> I'm going break the mirrors and replace the remaining old drives as
> well so it'll be a full replacement with what should be better
> unmatched disk pairs.

Ah, I misunderstood, raid 1 did save you...

If you have enough controllers you might want to add new disks to each
pair (making for trios) before removing the aged disks. (Though you say
"controller", which sounds like hardware raid, which might not support
raid 1 trios.)


-kb