On 29 December 2011 17:42, Herbert Graf wrote: > If you can put up with failures like that, then go for it (be aware, > it's VERY common for drives from the same batch to die very close in > time to each other, so a RAID 5 array might be very vulnerable if you > only have one hot spare. We once had a farm of machines with Fujitsu > drives. We had daily failures. Within a few months almost every single > drive in the farm had died). That's why storage is a big money maker and hot spares are an absolute necessity. --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .