On November 16, 2010 08:31:05 am Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 11/15/2010 10:41 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Thanks John, I appreciate it! Both are being replaced after a nearby 55 > > KV power line shorted to ground and blew a manhole cover 50' into the > > air, damaging a lot of equipment over here, even those on UPS's. Nobody > > was hurt, thank goodness. But, I'll be looking into RAID 5 in the > > future. > > In these days of multi-terabyte drives you should be looking at RAID6 > instead. The chances of a 'double failure' during degraded > operation/resync is too high to ignore. Like almost 100% ..