Alex Stapleton wrote:
> Your going to have to factor in the increased failure rate in your cost
> measurements, including any downtime or performance degradation whilst
> rebuilding parts of your RAID array. It depends on how long your
> planning for this system to be operational as well of course.
If we go 32xRAID10, rebuild time should be the same as rebuild time in a
4xRAID10 system. Only the hard drive that was replaced needs rebuild --
not the entire array.
And yes, definitely need a bunch of drives lying around as spares.