RE: Storage Robot for your Home

["Steve Morgan" <smorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of my Dell servers at work has been running 24x7 for 6 years. A
few
weeks ago, it started beeping and the array manager reported that the RAID
1
system drive was 'degraded' as a disk had failed. I pulled the caddy,
ordered a new drive, replaced the drive the next day and re-inserted the
caddy. Job done.

'Domestic' class RAID is just a liability in my opinion. As I mentioned
earlier, using Windows Home Server to provide regular automated backups
seems far more viable.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phil Harris
Sent: 10 April 2007 21:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Storage Robot for your Home

Hence my original statement of:

"Depends whether you mean a properly implemented RAID setup or a
half-arsed-done-on-the-cheap setup..."

Doing RAID properly isn't cheap!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Andy Davies
> Sent: 10 April 2007 21:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Storage Robot for your Home
>
> But yet commercially plenty seem to run fine - perhaps it's something
> to do
> with the quality of components we tend to choose for home raid...
>
> On 10/04/07, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There have been far too many horror stories on here over the
years
> about
> > RAID arrays failing irretrievably ...
> >
> > Phil
> >