On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Chad, I am aware of the magnitude of the problem *IF* corruption occurs in > RAID 5. That is not even remotely relevant with a conversation about the > probability of such corruption.
The Google string I have you pointed out studies that show it is remarkably a lot more common than you think. > > There appear to be two competing claims here: > > 1. RAID 5 itself is well known for having silent data corruption and should > not be used. Which you denied > > 2. Apple sold, until very recently a Mac OS X based, hardware RAID 5 > solution, supposedly honoring a "do no evil, cause not harm" philosophy. > > RAID 5 is not a new thing. Silent data corruption is not a new thing. I won't > buy an argument suggesting Apple just figured this out recently and that's > one of the reasons why they killed the Xserve RAID. Since when did anyone claim this was why Apple killed the XServe RAID? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
