Hey All,
Recently became the proud owner of a used MD1000. Hooked it up to R610 with external PERC 6/E card. Updated all the firmware R610 + MD1000. So I installed the drives (they are used BTW). Created a RAID5 VG with 1 global hot spare. So here are my questions:
1) I went into this knowing I'd be using aftermarket drives (I mean where can you get an enterprise external array with 15x2TB disks for $700). I knew I would have to do minimum raid5. This is for homelab, but I still want reliability. I'm gonna be putting family pics and stuff on this. Is raid5 good enough?
2) If a drive fails, how long for a rebuild? 1 day? 1 week? 4 hours? How is can I calculate this?
Thanks...
-TuttiPazzo