[Gllug] Source for quality 24/7-duty cycle SATA drives?

[Nix]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Martin A. Brooks whispered secretively:
> Nix wrote:
>> Of course if you lose a drive, back up, in case you *do* lose another drive
>> while you're adding the new one (or during resync).
> 
> No, backups should be happening anyway.

Yes, but back up immediately if you lose a drive :)

> If you lose a RAID set then you'll never lose more than the acceptable
> amount of data anyway.

I'm a paranoid who considers no data loss acceptable. Hence backups plus
RAID plus pre-emptive backup upon array degradation.

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