What’s worse then the sound of one hard drive going “click, click?”
What’s worse then the sound of one hard drive going “click, click?” Why, two drives going “click, click, click” in the same RAID 5 array, of course.
I’m not very happy with my little Infrant NAS box right now. I think I’ve had it with RAID 5–if I’m going to pile my life onto a disk array, then I really want something that can survive a 2-drive failure without croaking, and that’s basically impossible in a 4-drive enclosure.
I’m seriously considering replacing the Infrant with an OpenSolaris box running ZFS over RAID-Z2 with 6–10 drives; that should live through 2-drive failures, right? Anyone feel the need to talk me out of it?