Mike--Don't sweat it. Tom is the grasshopper to the rest of us ants. When, not if, our drives fail, the hive will reward us for our forward thinking and employing fault tolerance for the hardware. Tom, OTOH, will be sitting outside and crying into his thorax, cursing the exaggerated claims of theoretical failures by marketing departments.
We won't even talk about his not understanding the meaning of the word "mean," at least as far as it goes to statistics. > -----Original Message----- > I'm putting the argument in the parameters you set. > As to if you are acting or not, I won't guess. I'm still waiting for > the solution that improves on the old RAID technology..now we sit and wait > for you to tell us which HD's you were talking about when you claimed > anyone with a failed drive must have bought it at Toys R Us. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
