[Nottingham] ***TODAY*** Weds 21st June - meeting

[Chris Burton]

>> Bah. Raid arrays. Says he, having had yet another dumbass Dell storage
>> array drop a disk this morning and fail to logically catch it. Yes,
>> there's a spare. Yes, it's RAID5. No, it seemed to fail the disk and
>> then make a half-baked attempt at sparing it out, at the same time as
>> propagating SCSI errors back to the OS, thus taking out our Science
>> faculty staff email for an hour or so.
>
> Ouch!

RAID5 should just be classed as RAID-EVIL... I cant think of a single 
situation I've had where a drive has failed and its done what it was 
supposed to do (with hardware or software raid5). Though that did include 
the time I lost 5 drives within a day :)

ChrisB/BB.