vrobin wrote: > Nice examples of murphy's law sir. I cross my finger and touch wood, but > I've never lost any hard disk in my whole life. A sector dying from time > to time, but I always had time to back it up (not such a good idea to > make a hard drive fall from five feet on a marble ground). > > There's room for a whole dedicated thread: how I lost my data, my job, > wife and children because of a failing hard disk ;).
The issue is not *if* it fails, but *when*. If you haven't had one fail on you yet, then it's just a matter of time. I had a 120GB drive fail on me - lost everything on the disk. Nothing desperately valuable, but annoying. My music library was on 6x250GB drives in RAID5. I've had *every one* of the drives in that array fail and be replaced under warranty. I've now got 8x500GB drives in RAID6 - I haven't had one fail yet, but it's just a matter of time. I'll be re-organising my home storage shortly (when I get the hardware) to use OpenSolaris for my storage servers purely so I can use zfs - awesome technology. Those 8x500GB will make up a raidz2 array (similar to RAID6 - 2 redundant drives). R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
