RE: 20 drives, raid 5 with hot spare, puts two drives in hot spare -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: 20 drives, raid 5 with hot spare, puts two drives in hot spare
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:47:36 -0400
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I've been told this:
When using (19) or more disk, (2) drives are set aside for hot spare, this
is an IBm default.

When queried about a link to that info it wasn't forthcoming.

Rob Berendt

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