[Gllug] NFS problem

[Anthony Newman]

Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> All[1] SATA disks have an uncorrectable bit error for every 10^14 bits
> read, with 1TB disks close to 9*10^12 bits you have ~9% chance to get an
> error when you read all the data. 

One would presume that the BER is largely independent of disk size and 
if anything will have improved with time, so the total array size is the 
only important factor. I haven't heard any doom-mongering about the 
potentially gigantic SANs that large companies have been using...


Ant
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