Re: Storage array advice anyone?

>On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:47:20 +0000, chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com=20
>> My experience is that with either RAID 5 or 10 you have to be=20
>> unbelievably unlucky to lose data providing disks are replaced when=20
>> they fail and not left for a few days or even more. You are talking=20
>> extremely remote. It might be an idea to get someone to do the maths=20
>> and work out the probabilities.
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>I, for one, have been that unlucky on at least one occasion

Me too. No one was listening to the standby machine 350 miles away, going <little fly voice> Help me! Help me!</little fly voice>

Also, more often, seen what Cary points out, failures happen in clusters or dominos.

Joel Garry=20
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