On 04/26/2010 04:33 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon April 26 2010 14:44:32 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> the chance of a double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule. > > A flaky controller knocking one drive out of an array and then > breaking another before you're rebuilt can really ruin your day. >
I've been out of the office and so come to this discussion a bit late - my apologies if this has been mentioned ... Greater redundancy can be had by putting disks on several controllers rather than all on one. If the rebuild fails due to a controller problem, it shouldn't affect the disks on the other controllers. > Rebuild is generally the period of most intense activity so > figure on failures being much more likely during a rebuild. > > --Mike Bird > > -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bd88b6f.6080...@symantec.com
