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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l