How many disks is too many in this RAID 5 configuration??
- by Tom
HP 2012i SAN,
7 disks in RAID 5 with 1 hot spare,
took several days to expand the volume from 5 to 7 300GB SAS drives.
Looking for suggestions about when and how I would determine that having 2 volumes in the SAN, each one with RAID 5, would be better??
I can add 3 more drives to the controller someday, the SAN is used for ESX/vSphere VMs.
Thank you...