Kinda defeats the whole purpose of raid, doesn't it? I've had dozens of drives fail in raid arrays over the years and only once did a drive failure take out a server (hmmm... it was a dell, way back in 98). Sounds like the support personnel were the typical DKTAFAHITG. I had found the PERC controllers to be very solid when we had 3 datacenters full of dell servers...
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