On 02/05/12 2:42 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > What you are saying seems to make sense actually. I wonder how much a RAID6 > with a few spares would make sense. If we are talking a large number of > disks then RAID 6 + 2 spares means overpaying only for 5 disks. Not a lot > if the total number of them is, say, 20. except, you don't want more than about 12 disks max in a single raid5/6 group, or the performance penalties become enormous and the rebuild times become astronomical. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast