Re: RAID Reliability Calculations (Was Storage array advice anyone?)

Oops, I forgot to "reply all".

Yes, I should have said "independent studies". Vendors probably wouldn't want to share this, and I image clients don't want to advertise any unreliability...

Thanks,
Steven

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:11:26 +0000, chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com <chris_at_thedunscombes.f2s.com> wrote:
> Steven,
>
> None that I'm aware of but I'm sure the vendors will have some stats, although I
> expect that they don't share that info willingly.
>
> Chris
>
> Quoting Steven Patenaude <spatenau_at_gmail.com>:
>
> > Thanks for the information. A very interesting read.
> >
> > Are there any studies of RAID failures in the field? That is to say,
> > correlated disk failures can dramatically increase the chance of data
> > loss over the theoretical. Have there been any studies to compare
> > real rates of data loss to the theoretical rate of data loss?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven
> >
>
>
> Chris Dunscombe
>
> Christallize Ltd
>

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