Looking for an actual experience of RAID 5 2 drive failure?
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Mar 15, 20269324 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm wondering if anyone has any personal experience of RAID 5 2 drive failure with large drives? As I understand it, the theory is that with large 1-2TB drives, if one drive fails in the raid set, it needs to rebuild everything so is thus hitting all the other drives very hard, and the chance of an…
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Yes, I've had it happen to me. A set of 4 (consumer grade) WD 500 drives went bad over the course of about a week. I was slow to replace the first, and didn't take the array offline, and lost all my data when the second failed. I re-used the remaini…
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