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From: Francisco J Reyes <fran@natserv.net>
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Maarten de Vries wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>
> > Depends on what access patterns you have; is it mostly dormant
> > archiving; or lots of access, concurrent, sequential ? How safe does the
> > data need to be; and against what (hardware failure, accidental rm -rf).
>
> This would be for backup. Data on about 50 webservers would be backed up
> to it on a nightly basis. So performance wouldn't be important.


Highly recommend you go with Raid 10 and not 5.