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 > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l