m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: <snip> > Ok, listening to all of this, I've also been in touch with a tech from the > vendor*, who had a couple of suggestions: first, two RAID sets with two > global hot spares. > > I've just spoken with my manager, and we're going with that, then one of > the tech's other suggestions was three volume sets on top of the two RAID > sets, so we'll have what look like three drives/LUNs of about 13+TB each. <snip> Followup comment: I created the two RAID sets, then started to create the volume sets... and realized I didn't know if it was *possible*, much less desirable, to have a volume set that spanned two RAID sets. Talked it over with my manager, and I redid it as three RAID sets, one volume set each. Maybe the initialization will be done tomorrow.... <g> mark