From: "Geo" 

Raid5 is great for drive failures. The problem with it is that the raid5
controllers seem to fail almost as often as the drives and when a
controller fails the array is useless as a backup.

Geo.

"/m"  wrote in message
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> > I had my very first RAID 5 blowout a couple months ago, not fun at all.
>
> I'm of the opinion that RAID 5 merely postpones the inevitable, lulling
> you into a false sense of security in the process.  Therefore, when the
> failure finally does occur, it's been so long since you visited that box
> and/or drives, that you have forgotten important details.
>
>  /m

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