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So.. the article says not use use RAID 5 - then
recommends that the consumer buys a box (Drobo)
- which essentially just operates as a RAID 5
array when its full???? (put in 4 x 1 TB disks
and get 3 TB of usable space).

Seems incredibly stupid

at least the drobopro has dual disk redundancy
which should minimise the effect of and UREs
Posted by: mcfaul@...   Posted on: 05/19/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Drobo  mcfaul@... | 05/19/09
Drobo isn't a striped RAID array  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 05/19/09
yes it is  mcfaul@... | 05/19/09
2 copies.  thewelshboy | 05/21/09
Two drobos are not cost practical  georgeou | 05/26/09
Drobo uses a mixure of RAID technologies including RAID-5  georgeou | 05/19/09
I don't get it  po_134@... | 05/19/09
Robin mistakenly believes the Drobo doesn't use RAID-5  georgeou | 05/19/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  mcfaul@... | 05/19/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  po_134@... | 05/19/09
So long as two disks don't fail at once, you're good to go  georgeou | 05/19/09
That's exactly the problem  rosanlo | 05/20/09
Tine is not the only enemy  techr@... | 05/20/09
That's exactly the problem? (RAID 6)  Yndoendo | 05/20/09
I never said RAID equals backup  georgeou | 05/26/09
The solution to this is obvious  theshowmecanuck@... | 05/30/09
The REAL problem here ...  George Mitchell | 05/19/09
Another perspective  Richard Flude | 05/19/09
Doesn't make sense  sanjaydhar | 05/19/09
re:Doesn't make sense  subnetmask255x4 | 05/20/09
Drive maintenance ...  George Mitchell | 05/20/09
soft vs. hard raid  emilp | 05/21/09
it's not about bad blocks  subnetmask255x4 | 05/21/09
Sans RAID ici  johnfenjackson@... | 05/20/09
Day of reckoning  wkulecz | 05/20/09
ADG? SAS?  tdasherjr | 05/20/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  cerving | 05/20/09
Chances of failure  cburkitt2 | 05/20/09
Has this person been a sysadmin?  someitguy79 | 05/20/09
someitguy79 contact me about RAID RECOVERY PLEASE  djzoey | 05/20/09
What about RAID-1 ??  websquad | 05/20/09
The key advantage of RAID 1 is ...  George Mitchell | 05/20/09
potentally  someitguy79 | 05/21/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  dave.schutz@... | 05/20/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  monkeyman1140@... | 05/20/09
Bingo!  snafu_77 | 05/25/09
RAID 6 anyone  James Schroer | 05/20/09
Don't you love percentages?  terrykuntz | 05/20/09
always use scrubing for raid5  emilp | 05/21/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  zdneter0000 | 05/21/09
I've given up on RAID  LarryPTL | 05/21/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  bb_apptix | 05/26/09
RAID 1 and single disk failure  subnetmask255x4 | 05/26/09
RE: RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays  AQuyen | 12/04/09

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