24 Sep
2009
24 Sep
'09
1:39 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:48 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
It's the array's way of saying it's not really safe to operate a 14 disk RAID-4 group in the event of a drive failure. Also performance will suffer greatly with such a large data:parity drive ratio.
NetApp RAID DP (what you have): http://www.netapp.com/us/library/white-papers/wp_3298.html
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162
Thanks so much everyone for the comments and insight. This is absolutely giving me very valuable new understanding on RAID. I've just got to say this is another proof that Centos mailing list is one of the most highly trusted list I've ever known. Salut!