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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve B" data-source="post: 292009" data-attributes="member: 15754"><p>The rebuild times for arrays of large capacity drives can be extremely long. Two main problems. 1. The drives that are normally used in these less expensive arrays are usually pretty slow. If you notice, a lot of times they don't even give a rotation speed for them. 2. Most of these drives were also never designed to be running 100% of the time which means one of the most likely times for a drive to fail is during a long rebuild. In short, they are great choices for large capacity near-line storage but don't keep all of you eggs in one basket. Either use them as a backup or back them up somewhere else. RAID protection isn't 100% failure proof.</p></blockquote><p></p>