On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:51, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > 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 :-) Yeah, I forget who made the unit we used, but it was pretty much fully automated. IT was something like a large RAID 5+0 (0+5???) and would send an alert when a drive died or started getting errors, and the bad drive's caddy would be flashing read instead of steady green. I just remember thinking that I'd never used a drive array that was taller than I was before that. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
