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Re: Raid 5 two hard disk failed

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Hi,

 

Due to the nature of how RAID 5 stripes data and parity, you can only recover if one hard drive has failed. Two hard drive failures and you are out of business.You don't see many consumer RAID 5 configurations as it typically takes up too many SATA ports.

 

In a more robust commercial environment, a RAID 10 configuration that includes hot standby hard drives is perhaps the safest RAID configuration. When a hard drive fails then the standby hard drive is automatically configured into the array.  RAID 10 will protect you against two hard drive failures.  Synchronizing the array via a remote link to a remote site should protect you against a local disaster.


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