[Gllug] disk problems

[Rich Walker]

Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> writes:

> Nix writes:
>
>>Join the club. After I lost two disks in a month-long period I went
>>all-out and have now RAIDed the lot. No more disk death for *me*.
>
> Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
> The first time you lose 3 drives concurrently will cure you of your
> belief that RAID will protect you :-) Unless you're using some seriously
> OTT RAID scheme -- which I've seen done, but it wasn't exactly cheap.

I have this recollection of a post by a comp.arch regular where they
explained about the time they shut down a server that had been on for
months. When it restarted, some 10 or so of the 35-odd drives didn't
start. Blurgh went the raid arrays...

But I've never managed to track the post down...

cheers, Rich.

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