I spoke with our Tech Services guy and he said there'd be no issue using a RAID5 with 12 disks, it would give us ample space and yield 11 available spindles. This should provide quick performance with a 9-1 read/write ratio.
Unfortunately I'm not much of a hardware guy 🙁 But I suppose I'll just need to test it out to see
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