From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Dec 15 13:08:43 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iBFJ8h702686 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:08:43 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iBFJ8g002680 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:08:42 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4356372CD3F; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:15:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31379-38; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:15:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B36C472CF36; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:11:54 -0500 (EST) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=sLkDi9jp0lioKTSxXWgkzN5E+qYCZVtsf8de4NGZFIVZCmcRgKIpJ9728jYqtCOggbp+cFm6gTehDJFLOdgfDCpRoVMMpNtvhikdE6rpGzb4p/V+LdrvgTsDnwjSUhvgtuhtV+n8sUEy8zkK9bndRB/oRXDM5yP+wFqUBYHraOw= ; Message-ID: <20041215190615.42689.qmail@web41302.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:06:15 -0800 (PST) From: mkb Subject: RE: Storage array advice anyone? To: oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 13728 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mkb125@yahoo.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mkb125@yahoo.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Um...yeah I hope that wasn't a rhetorical question? --- "Post, David (Corporate)" wrote: > In addition to the failure probabilities human error > while attempting to fix > the array can lose all your data. Ever had a tech > pull out the a working > drive instead of the failed drive? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:58 PM > To: chris@thedunscombes.f2s.com > Cc: Stephen.Lee@dtag.com; oracle-l@freelists.org > Subject: Re: Storage array advice anyone? > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:47:20 +0000, > chris@thedunscombes.f2s.com > > My experience is that with either RAID 5 or 10 you > have to be unbelievably > > unlucky to lose data providing disks are replaced > when they fail and not > left > > for a few days or even more. You are talking > extremely remote. It might be > an > > idea to get someone to do the maths and work out > the probabilities. > > I, for one, have been that unlucky on at least one > occasion. > > -- > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l