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4 x 2TB drives, safe to use RAID-5? What is failure rate?

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I've read a number of opinions on the risks of running a RAID-5 using 4 x 2TB drives. Apparently the failure rate of the 2TB drives is so high that there is less redundancy than is generally expected. 2TB drives have been on the market for a long time now. Is this opinion founded? If relevant, the …

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Useful reading: RAID 5 May Be Doomed - Tom Seguin No RAID 5 - Art S Kagel Apparently with storage capacities of modern SATA hard drives now reaching 2-terabytes in size, the odds of a read error during a RAID 5 disk reconstruction is becoming unavoi…

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