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That's just one of many. Another good one is the violent failure mode. We had a RAID 6 go bad because a head crashed hard, hard enough that two other disks in t
by jldugger 7y ago
That's just one of many. Another good one is the violent failure mode. We had a RAID 6 go bad because a head crashed hard, hard enough that two other disks in the array also head crashed. Since the enclosure puts them pretty much lines them up, this is kinda inevitable.
- blackflame7000 7y agoWow, was that an IBM Deathstar? Two additional reasons for raid 6: 1. Fan failure on a hard disk pod causes damage to multiple drives simultaneously. 2. Many adjacent drives are connected via the same power cable which always has the potential to destroy drives in groups via over-voltage from a failing power supply.