Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote > >> I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems >> use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large >> raid-6. we usually don't make single raid sets much large than 7-8 >> drives, and for a very large storage system, will stripe multiple >> raid5/6 sets rather than have one huge one. > > Would that I had such luxuries. This is a university lab with needs > for massive amounts of data and not much money with which to do it. > Wouldn't striping a bunch of raid6 volumes give you about the same amount of space? Russ