On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Robert Schnabel <schnab...@missouri.edu> wrote:
> the phone with Seagate.  When I built the first array I bought a single
> spare drive.  As soon as two drives die I'm going to be in the position of
> having to either scrap all of them or buy a new controller that will work
> with the new firmware.  If I hadn't bought that extra drive the array would
> be dead as soon as one of the drives goes.
>
> My point is... if you have the means, buy at least one spare while you can.

I'd go shopping for more spares on ebay now...

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