SATA PT2

[Luke-Jr]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:11, Phil Thayer wrote:
> Not to mention that with the recent SATA drive sizes to get 1TB of SATA
> would only take 2 drive.  However, if you want to use a multi-channel
> SATA controller with raid you will want to use smaller drives (like 4 x
> 300 or 8 X 250) so you don't loose too much capacity to parity.

With 8 drives, I'd probably want to make 2 parity for a server... As unlikely 
as it is for 2 drives to fail at once, that chance does increase with # of 
drives.