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You could easily go RAID 10

My eight drive comment relates to the equivalent requirement of your current five drive array on the older server. Regardless of the number of drives used in a RAID 5 array, one's capacity is "lost" to provide the check bit. With 5 drives, you get the capacity of four. To maintain that capacity in a RAID 10 array, that number would be doubled.

Having read your latest response to Abe, however, the new array has larger drives where you don't need all that capacity. You could afford to mirror everything which is what RAID 10 is all about. Using four 300 GB drives, that would provide 600 GB in a RAID 10 configuration and 900 GB in RAID 5.

Sounds like you could splurge and get a more robust array using 10.

Let me also take a moment to thank you for making this incredible nut house possible!

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