On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under >>ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? > > This comes up often:) > Things to keep in mind when using large discs if you suffer a failure, > while rebuilding in a degraded state it's not impossible or unlikely to > drop another disc loosing it all. > > Rebuild times especially on busy arrays with large discs take lots of > time... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks Joseph! In your opinion, if we are talking about 15 2-TB disks what does "lots of time" translate to? Boris.