From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 16?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:42:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <drtjq9$4le$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2006.02.02.16.17.03.859560@smurf.noris.de
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Hi, David Liontooth wrote:
>> * define 4 pairs of RAID 1 with an 8-port 3ware 9500S card * the OS will
> Hmm. You'd have eight disks, five(!) may fail at any time, giving you
Four, isn't it?
RAID6 covers the failure of 2 of the underlying RAID1s, which, in turn,
means failures of 2 disks each, so four.
Sometimes even 5, yes - given the right ones fail.
regards
Mario
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 5:59 RAID 16? David Liontooth
2006-02-02 6:03 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-02 8:34 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-02-02 16:17 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-02-02 16:28 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-02-02 16:54 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-02-02 20:24 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-02-02 21:18 ` J. Ryan Earl
2006-02-02 21:29 ` Andy Smith
2006-02-02 22:38 ` Konstantin Olchanski
2006-02-03 2:31 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-02-03 2:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-02 18:42 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [this message]
2006-02-02 20:34 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-02-03 0:20 ` Guy
2006-02-03 0:59 ` David Liontooth
2006-02-02 16:44 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-02-03 9:08 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-02-03 2:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-05 23:42 ` Hard drive lifetime: wear from spinning up or rebooting vs running David Liontooth
2006-02-06 3:57 ` Konstantin Olchanski
2006-02-06 5:25 ` Patrik Jonsson
2006-02-06 4:35 ` Richard Scobie
2006-02-06 10:09 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-02-06 16:45 ` David Liontooth
2006-02-06 17:12 ` Francois Barre
2006-02-07 8:44 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2006-02-07 19:18 ` Neil Bortnak
2006-02-06 19:22 ` Brad Dameron
2006-02-06 21:15 ` Dan Stromberg
2009-09-20 19:44 ` RAID 16? Matthias Urlichs
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