[Cialug] lost+found

[L. V. Lammert]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Scott Yates wrote:

> 13x 3tb drives would get you a raid-5 that should cover the storage while
> you diagnose.  You could expand the storage after diagnosing the problem,
> or keep them online for a hot spare server.  The investment in drives is
> probably more than offset by the data you are backing up.
>
Of course, but, in practicality, quite impossible. It would take over five
days on GBE each way, total 10 days downtime.xcx

I realized long ago that when deailing with these huge arrays, you have to
rely on redundant HW (RAID6 in this case), as moving data around is
just not practical.

`	Thanks!

	Lee