On Thu, April 21, 2005 4:15 pm, MagicITX said: >> As another hint - Start your RAID small and grow it. Buying your disks >> all at once means that they'll all tend to fail at once - Which is not a >> good thing. Unfortunately, there's no easy, reliable way I've found to >> extend a RAID without backing up (somewhere really huge :) and >> restoring.
That's a myth about RAIDs and hard drives in general. I've built and maintained many many RAIDs over the years (with several of them running for years) and never have experienced a noticeable increase in drive failures or drives failing closer together, etc. Nor have I ever had a vendor even suggest such a procedure. Hard drives basically fail regularly and randomly over the entire life of the RAID. Even when EMC installs their big $500K frames, they don't add drives bit by bit or even from different manufacturing runs. -- Bryce T. Pier _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
