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	"Craig Ringer" <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql
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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Organization: EnterpriseDB
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:46:53 +0000
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<david@lang.hm> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18/03/2008, Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
>>> Isn't a 10 or 24 spindle RAID 5 array awfully likely to encounter a
>>>  double disk failure (such as during the load imposed by rebuild onto a
>>>  spare) ?
>
> that's why you should use raid6 (allowing for dual failures)

You can have as many parity drives as you want with RAID 5 too.

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