I recently setup a raid5 running with 3 drives (planning on scaling up to 8). I have been following the discussions on raid5/6 becoming extinct in the next few years. Matter of point until a few months ago, no one had ever raided 1.5tb drives (because they didn't exist).
Anyone out there had drives fail in a 1.5tb drive array and recovered from it? Anyone out there with some mammoth 1.5tb hd hardware arrays? Raid 6 might be the answer for now, which cards are popular for raid 6? 12port card, (bang for the buck).
What I stand to loose is time. Its digitized media. (all of my important stuff is backed up in 3 places). I just don't want my media server to die, and to be offline for weeks over a drive failure. But raid 5 is looking pretty shaky. And a hot spare doesn't fix this issue.
Is this just fear mongering in your experience? Or are people standing to enter a world of hurt doing raid5 on 1tb+ drives?
Anyone out there had drives fail in a 1.5tb drive array and recovered from it? Anyone out there with some mammoth 1.5tb hd hardware arrays? Raid 6 might be the answer for now, which cards are popular for raid 6? 12port card, (bang for the buck).
What I stand to loose is time. Its digitized media. (all of my important stuff is backed up in 3 places). I just don't want my media server to die, and to be offline for weeks over a drive failure. But raid 5 is looking pretty shaky. And a hot spare doesn't fix this issue.
Is this just fear mongering in your experience? Or are people standing to enter a world of hurt doing raid5 on 1tb+ drives?