<p>Raid 5,6 is a waste of time. When one fails a second failure is likely before recovery can finish. Raid 10, thanks to cheap drives, is the best bet. If you're totally paranoid, do the mirror in triplets. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2010 10:43 PM, "Matty" <<a href="mailto:matty91@gmail.com">matty91@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I want to play around with openfiler and freenas over Xmas, and I've<br>
> been reading tons of 1.5TB and 2TB disk drive reviews tonight. From<br>> what I've gathered so far, the reliability of large capacity drives<br>> sucks and you need to factor this in when picking your RAID levels<br>
> (I'm going with RAID6). Amazon currently has 1.5TB drives for $60:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZCXJZE?ie=UTF8&tag=tp6708-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ZCXJZE">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZCXJZE?ie=UTF8&tag=tp6708-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ZCXJZE</a>"<br>
> <br>> So I'm thinking about picking up a few of these for my project. Anyone<br>> have any thoughts on these drives or any of the other 1.5TB - 2TB<br>> drive manufacturers? Trying to find something that performs reasonably<br>
> well and is relatively reliable.<br>> <br>> Thanks for any feedback,<br>> - Ryan<br>> --<br>> <a href="http://prefetch.net">http://prefetch.net</a><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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