On Tuesday 24 July 2007 17:44, after a long battle with technology,
der.hans wrote:
> Am 24. Jul, 2007 hawn Badger wrote:
>> The only time I have ever heard of [losing] more than one disk in a
>> day has been due to some type of power surge that usually fried the
>> server [as] well.
> Ah, but are you sure you can get to it the same day?
> If it's in a datacenter at work it should be easy, except maybe over
> a long weekend...
Or if all 3 disks were serial#s 12345, 12346, and 12347 all from the
same manufacturer, and so suffered from insanely similar manufacturing
flaws. I haven't seen this happen, but I've heard from people who have
(though this was always with 2-disk RAID-1, not 3.)
> If it's in a telco station in the boonies or driving around Mars
> you're not in good shape to just hop out and pop in a new drive :).
> /me pats his RAID 5 and remembers to keep working on his offsite
> backups.
If you have a station in the boonies, you try to have a warm body
somewhere near the boonies. Usually. Mars is a whole different can of
worms full of Pandora's boxes. Offsite backups are always a good
thing, and easier now that there's decent bandwidth and rsync.
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