>But not at the same time. That is the failure that RAID is designed to >mitigate. If you have multiple, simultaneous drive failures, you have much >bigger problems than worrying about your RAID controller.
Read the Wikipedia entry on RAID. They say the opposite. >All of the multiple safety systems in your car increase the probability that >one or more will fail at an inopportune time. Are you going out to your car >and ripping them out today? Will you feel safer then? Maybe. Some people did that with airbags, though now I think many have made peace with that. Some do it to emissions devices claiming it hurts gas mileage. Some people refuse to vaccinate their kids. Etc. Etc. In all these cases you have to make the case for taking the abnormal action. >Run single drive systems at your own risk. The probability of a single >drive failure bringing down your system is 100%. With RAID it is much >lower. That is just silly. You must have never takes a statistics class.With RAID probability of failure is higher and recovery is more complex. But the bigger problem is that RAID does not provide any real data security. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
