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Large hard drives in RAID 5 a problem?

December 2nd, 2008 by Vladimir Stajic


A colleague recently brought to my attention Robin Harris' blog post »Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009.« According to the blog, we're supposed to be nearing the limit of usefulness of RAID 5. Harris' thesis states that hard drive manufacturers currently specify that up to 100,000,000,000,000 bits can be ...

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