Heck, just a raid rebuild takes days nowadays if you dare use RAID5 still or, less risky, RAID6. The smart move is to keep several smaller arrays instead of on

Heck, just a raid rebuild takes days nowadays if you dare use RAID5 still or, less risky, RAID6. The smart move is to keep several smaller arrays instead of one big one. This lowers risk as well. I dont put in anything bigger than 7 disks into production. Past that I'm just asking for trouble. Its better to have 4 7 disk arrays than one 28 disk array. A drive fail means a quick rebuild and a restore is going to be 1/4 the time.