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@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:58 PM To: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Storage array advice anyone? On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:47:20 +0000, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l