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It depends on how it's configured.

If you configured it with RAID 5 for example the risk increase as you data is spread across all 5 disks but the redundancy will save you if one fails. Having a 16 disk raid array however means you will have greater chance of 2 disk failure meaning your hosed anyways. There is alway Raid 10 though or going for Raid 1 but that would double the amount of disks you need.

Of course you could just go with 16 individual volumes representative of each individual disk. If one fails you lose just what is on that single disk.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 03/01/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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No doubt about it, massive storage is required.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/28/06
Yeah, it is required  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
I figure I'll 6.4 TB  voska | 02/28/06
Seriously though  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
A big IF  voska | 02/28/06
Not sure  Michael Kelly | 02/28/06
Not an issue  voska | 03/01/06
Drive Size vs Arrays  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Wotts to stop us  s_gamgee | 02/28/06
No, they've been selling a 64-bit version of Windows for around 4 years.  PB_z | 02/28/06
RAID, HERE I COME!!  CobraA1 | 02/28/06
$400/TB  baldwinleo@... | 02/28/06
Hard Drives vs. Trees  ZStoner | 02/28/06
So maybe SCSI isn't dead?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/28/06
Nope.. Tis dead. Stick a fork in it.  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Nope it isn't  voska | 03/01/06
Windows Vista is Bloated and Full of Swiss Cheese Holes  Evisscerator | 02/28/06
YET another Linux fanboi heard from... (NT)  Wolfie2K3 | 02/28/06
Give it time  m-nature | 03/01/06
Cool, but... failure rate with several disks is...  MV_z | 02/28/06
Ermmm. No  nucrash | 02/28/06
But then you'd not have 8 TB  voska | 03/01/06
Sort of  voska | 03/01/06
Scarily big...  zkiwi | 02/28/06
Old rule of thumb : data will expand to fill all available storage.  JonathonDoe | 03/01/06
8 TB's on Windows?  LocoMojo | 03/01/06
How about 8 Picobytes?  metilley@... | 03/01/06
Umm.. 8 Picobytes is a very small amount  mombo | 03/01/06
SIZE  SC-man | 03/01/06
RE: Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop  COMMANDOF4 | 06/23/09
RE: Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop  COMMANDOF4 | 06/23/09

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