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by dialtone 5097 days ago
Except when you have to factor in all the plane flights to replace broken HDD. And the risk of not making it in time for when it breaks.
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shiftpgdn 5097 days ago
Most colo facilities let you buy hands on time through their techs or include a small amount per month for things like hard drive/ram swaps.
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rdl 5097 days ago
Yeah, I don't think I'd go with less than RAID-6 (or full system redundancy plus 1 drive redundancy in each). Rebuilds just take too long, even with an in-chassis spare on RAID5.

Unfortunately Areca is really the only controller I've found which is well supported and does RAID6 fast.

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