On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:15:33PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:09, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > Michael Stone writes:
> >
> > > I still don't follow that. Why would the RAID level matter? IOW, are you
> > > actually wanting 2 spares, or are you just stick with that because you
> > > need a factor of two disks for your mirrors?
> >
> > RAID 10 needs pairs.. so we can either have no spares or 2 spares.
>
> Spares are placed in service one at a time. You don't need 2 spares for
> RAID 10, trust me.
Sadly, 3ware doesn't produce any controllers with the ability to do an
odd number of channels, so you end up burning through 2 slots to get a
hot spare (unless you spend substantially more money and go with the
next model up).
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