Sterling double failures are rare, but the probability goes up as the ambient temperature rises.
In any case, you need offsite backups to take care of accidentally-deleted files and cascading failures (like a power supply taking out the array) Brad > I just had TWO of the four hard drives in my Raid 5 array die today! > > Now I need some help figuring out how to get my data back since I wasn't > exactly counting on a double failure. > > One of the SCSI drives sounds like two stones rubbing each other at 10k RPM. > The other just says "Media Error" from my Adaptec BIOS init. > > Any ideas? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
