[aklug] RAID 6 vs. 5 w/ hot spare

From: Scott A. Johnson <scott.a.johnson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Feb 13 2011 - 18:12:00 AKST

Have a 8 drive RAID 5 with ~1.4TB capacity that has been full for a
while and is getting old. Just ordered the hardware to migrate over to
a 5-drive NAS with 2TB drives. I'll only use three of the drives for
storage as the other two will either be parity in a RAID 6 or parity
plus hot spare in a RAID 5. Anyone with suggestions, thoughts, or
experiences on one configuration versus the other?

Scott
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