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Reminder -- RAID 5 is not your friend



Richard Pieri wrote:
> If I were to expand the storage I'd use RAID 50 rather than triple mirrors.

Yes, you do what you can with what you can, though I was thinking you go
triple just while that replication to two the new disks was going on.
Disks do have infant mortality risks, the chance of a newish source disk
dying during that second rebuilding is not trivial.

-kb







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