OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Sep 2009 13:40 UTC, submitted by Robert Escue

This is an article which discusses the increase in storage capacity while performance and hard error rates have not improved significantly in years, and what this means for protecting data in large storage systems. "The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future â" and are probably obvious to some users already. In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable."

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RE: This is an OS issue more then a drive issue.

by jwwf on Mon 21st Sep 2009 03:27 UTC in reply to "This is an OS issue more then a drive issue."

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My main computer at work has 3T of disk space. The data is spaced out over: 21 35g, 78 17.5G, 14 70g drives (113 drives in totals)

AS400, nice. Thats's a pretty beefy setup, what are you guys running on it?

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