Re: 20 drives, raid 5 with hot spare, puts two drives in hot spare -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: 20 drives, raid 5 with hot spare, puts two drives in hot spare
From: Sue Baker <sue.baker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:33:17 GMT:

<snip>
Are your RAID controllers set for Performance, Capacity, or
Balanced? </snip>

I did not specify.

The you ended up with balanced. And it is possible you ended up
with a good spread to parity sets, but my recommendation is to
go back and set for performance.

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