________________________________ From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions On 4/11/2013 12:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> 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 would test how long a drive rebuild takes on a 20 disk RAID6. I suspect, very long, like over 24 hours, assuming a fast controller and sufficient channel bandwidth. ---- But isn't that one of the benefits of RAID6? (not much degraded/latency effect during a rebuild, less impact on performance during rebuild, so longer times are acceptable?) ______________________________________________________________________ If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. "♥ Sticker" fixer: http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html