Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:

> <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.

you can? I've never seen a raid 5 setup with more then a single parity
dirve (or even the option of having more then one drives worth of
redundancy). you can have hot-spare drives, but thats a different thing.

what controller/software lets you do this?

David Lang