On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:23:06PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > That's what I thought too. Then on disk in my RAID-5 array died. I > swapped out the bad disk for a good disk, and the recovery started. > The recovery put so much stress on the other old drives that one of > them also died. I didn't lose much data, but I did lose some. [...] > 2) spend the extra money fro RAID-1. But don't rely on it instead of backups. IMO, aside from RAID-0, RAID is 95% about uptime, 5% about data survival. There's always still the risk that a RAID-1 drive going down is simply the tip of the iceberg, and that whatever caused its death may be lurking on the remaining drive, waiting to take it down too.
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