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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Subject: Re: advice to low cost hardware raid (with mdadm)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:41:29 +0200
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On 10-09-16 00:03, Pol Hallen wrote:
>
>>additionally, in the event
>>  of a disk failure, rebuilding a 6x1TB RAID5/6 array will take forever
>>  and a day.
>
> a nightmare...
>
> very thanks for your reasoning.. I don't have enought experience about
> raid and friends!
>
> Pol

One remark - write intent bitmaps will make it perfectly fine (orders of 
magnitude faster). I'm not sure how the feature looks from performance 
point of view these days though.