[clue-tech] RAID no. of disks

[Angelo Bertolli]

I know that things like RAID 5 need at least 3 disks, and can lose 1 
disk.  The biggest RAID sets I set up are RAID 6 with 12 disks, and 
honestly that's pushing it a bit for fault tolerance.  But it does seem 
to work.

Does anyone on the list know if there is an upper limit to the number of 
disks?  I am sure there must be, as the parity can't possibly be rebuilt 
from just using one extra drive, if you have 1000 data drives, for 
example.  I'm sure there has to be a tradeoff somewhere, like if I have 
1000 drives, I'm not getting a capacity of 999 drives, maybe more like 
900 drives.

Angelo