On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:06:25AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > There was a big commercial EMC style array in the hosting center at the > same place that had something like a 16 wide by 16 tall array of IDE > drives for storing pdf / tiff stuff on it, and we had at least one > failure a month in it. Of course, that's 256 drives, so you're gonna > have failures, and it was configured with a spare on every other row or > some such. We just had a big box of hard drives and it was smart enough > to rebuild automagically when you put a new one in, so the maintenance > wasn't really that bad. The performance was quite impressive too. If you have a cool SAN, it alerts you and removes all data off a disk _before_ it starts giving hard failures :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
