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From: Nicola Fankhauser <nicola.fankhauser@variant.ch>
Subject: Re: Joys of spare disks!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:58:56 +0100
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hi robin

Robin Bowes wrote:
>> I bought 9 (8+1 for RAID5) 6B300S0 300GB Maxtor DM10 a month ago and 
>> they seem to run fine - though I want to test them with powermax this 
>> week to see if there could be problems.
> 
> Based on my experiences, I would strongly recommend running them 7+1+1, 
> i.e. configuring a spare diskl

the RAID 5 array has 8 drives. the "server" is in my basement and thus 
accessible all the time. the (tested :) 9th drive is lying in my drawer 
and will serve as replacement as soon as a drive dies. I hope it's enough.

regards
nicola