Re: Quick Question on Raid5 w/Hot Spare -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Quick Question on Raid5 w/Hot Spare
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:30:13 -0400
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Not hot spares, LIVE pairs! i7.1 enables hot spare for mirroring as well.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 4/8/2013 12:23 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 4/8/13 9:15 AM, Jerry Draper wrote:

We had to plan for a machine power down to move the drives around so we
could end up with our hot spare in a load source capable position.

We mirror everything. That way, every drive is, in effect, a hot spare.

--
JHHL

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