Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016

Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by aidenn0 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:51AM (#12216114)

RAID6 is unusable for many types of "always on" data, in particular databases backing high volume sites; the performance drops so much during a rebuild that for many uses it might as well be offline.

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by throwaway7767 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @09:18AM (#12217690)

Then you use mirrors, you can apply a similar calculation there. Lower price per disk means you can put more disks in each mirror and compensate for lower per-disk reliability.

Obviously the type of redundancy used will depend on your specific application requirements, including performance.

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