Re: Rack Mount 4U - Lots of Drives?

[Phil Dye <phil@xxxxxxx>]

On 5/17/05, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't use raid either, mostly because the experience here seems to
be that
> it takes out all your data, rather than just the stuff on the one
drive that
> fails!

That's because RAID is no substitute for backups; it can in many
circumstances avoid the need for them, but that doesn't mean they
shouldn't exist. Controllers can die, write crap all over the entire
array, etc, or as is often the case, drives purchased at the same time
from the same batch will fail at around the same time.

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phil