I have about one drive crash, physical crash, per year. I'm convinced the technology the drives are built on is less reliable that 10 years ago. It may be that the pressure to deliver makes these companies deliver too quick.
Those drives from the 80-ies were reliable, some are still working, even though 100MBytes appear a bit small. A raid drive crash is fixed by replacing the hot spare drive and ordering a new one. A non-raid drive crash takes me at least 3 days to install a new drive, reinstall the OS, reinstall the software, reinstall the backup. I never had a controller crash in 20 years. I do have a spare raid controller though. And since WinNT I never had wrong data due to the OS. I admit a raid is not a backup though Rene David VanHorn wrote: > > > > >Stop! Don't confuse the terms! > > I'm not confused. > > >A raid system is definitly NOT a backup, it's something like a fail safe > >system! > >It protects ONLY against hardware failture and can't replace a backup system. > > Does it protect against failures of the raid controller? > Does it protect against the OS instructing the controller to destroy your data? > > >With a raid level 5 it is possible to work further if one (and only one of > >at least three) of the hard drives fails. > > So you cube your odds of having a drive fail, to protect yourself from that > failure, assuming the OS or the applications don't barf all over the data > first? > > Raid was a good idea in 1980, when hard drives were somewhat > unreliable. I've had them fail, as have we all.. However, every OS I've > run in the windows line has caused way more problems. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
