Question to the Storage Advisors: What are the practical limitations on the number of disks in a RAID-5 set? I understand that a larger number of disks worsens the probabilities of bad things like a failure or paying the worst possible seek/delay cost in random accesses. Do you have any mathematical models for evaluating these penalties? …

I wanted to let you fine folks know that I’ve recorded a few webinars on many of the topics that I routinely discuss here in this blog. Each one is about 15 minutes long and comes with smorgasbord of tasty slides. The biggest downside is that my delivery is only slightly better than Ben Stein discussing the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. (Anyone? Anyone?) …