Note that the 10^14 figure is only what the HDD mfgs publish, and it has been the same for something like a decade. It's a nice, safe, conservative figure that seems impressively high to IT Directors and accountants, and yet it's low enough that HDD mfgs can easily fall back on it as a reason why a drive failed to meet a customers expectations.
In reality you'll find that drives perform significantly better than that, arguably orders of magnitude better.
That said, I'm still not a fan of RAID5. Both rebuild speed and probability of batch failures of drives (if one drive fails, the probability of another drive failing is significantly higher if they came from the same batch), make it too risky a prospect for my comfort.
In reality you'll find that drives perform significantly better than that, arguably orders of magnitude better.
That said, I'm still not a fan of RAID5. Both rebuild speed and probability of batch failures of drives (if one drive fails, the probability of another drive failing is significantly higher if they came from the same batch), make it too risky a prospect for my comfort.