RE: Storage array advice anyone?

Um...yeah

I hope that wasn't a rhetorical question?

--- "Post, David (Corporate)" <Dave.Post@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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@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
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