From: "Geo." 

Why is distributed hot spare an advantage? Seems to me a hot spare where
the disk spins down when not in use is more likely to not put the wear on
the spare drive that a distributed hot spare would, no? (am I missing
something about this, I've never looked into it before)

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:40548599$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> RAID 5E uses a distributed hot spare disk, so it works with a minimum of
> four disks. Protection: very good. Capacity: N-2. Where N is the number of
> disks, the capacity is N-2 (one for parity and one for spare).
>
> http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/security/raid.htm

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