Toby Bluhm wrote: > IIRC you had two out of four new disks die? So maybe it would be more > accurate to say it's your hardware you don't trust. Raid5 is used > without problems by ( I assume ) many, many people, myself included. > You could have a raid10 and still lose the whole array if two disks > that in the same mirror die at once. I guess no software in the world > can really overcome bad hardware. That's why we do backups :) > > Anyway, perhaps excersizing /stressing the disks for a few days > without error would make you feel more confident about the HDs. > I believe I replied to this, but not sure why it didn't show up. Here it is again: Actually, 2 disks did not die. Due to the fact that it was a new raid 5 array (or for whatever reason), it was rebuilding the array. One of the drives had a media error, and this caused the whole array to be lost. This is exactly what this article warns about: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt Russ