Peter Kovacs escribió: > But if an individual disk fails in a disk array, sooner than later you > would want to purchase a new fitting disk, walk/drive to the location > of the disk array, replace the broken disk in the array and activate > the new disk. Is this correct? Ideally you would have a spare disk to let the array controller replace the broken one as soon as it breaks, but yeah, that would be more or less the procedure. There is a way to defer the walk/drive until a more convenient opportunity presents. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.