On 8/9/2020 5:26 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-08-09 13:38, David Christensen wrote:Then again, many small drives have higher performance than fewer large drives of the same total capacity.And a higher probability of failure.
Not necessarily. If the smaller drives have a greater MTBF, then the failure rate may be lower, and in fact often is. By implementing RAID 6 with 2 parity drives and a hot spare, I sleep pretty well at night.