RE: Storage array advice anyone?

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?

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:58 PM To: chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com
Cc: Stephen.Lee_at_dtag.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Storage array advice anyone?

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:47:20 +0000, chris_at_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.

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