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Just remember that RAID 5 is to protect against mainly 1 drive failing at any given time, for the array to just be degraded. I would tell you to break up that many drives into severaly RAID 5 arrays. Don't put that many drives to a single RAID 5 array. You would be asking for trouble.
Also, remember to have a hot spare or two available incase something happens, you can easily implement it.
As always, tape backup is still a good idea to do nightly.
I'm just giving suggestions. We have a Sun StorEdge 6130 Array that I maintain among other things. It scales from 5 to 112 drives (365GB to 41.2TB). I just don't want you to think I'm just throwing you suggestions and not know what I'm talking about.
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