Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

[Matt Graham]

From: Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org>
> It will be nice when SSD prices come down (and capacity goes up).  No 
> more mechanical failures, then just have to worry about when the flash 
> wears out. Still a downside in that even if a mechanical drive fails, 
> you can sometimes still get the data back by swapping the logic board or 
> having a professional data recovery service get the data off the 
> platters. If an SSD drive fails it's probably hard to find a specialist 
> with the equipment for munging data from the flash.

I see a business opportunity for people with the appropriate 
equipment, though it might take a year or 3 for there to be enough 
potential customers to make it worthwhile.

(Me, I'll continue to keep my most important information chiseled onto
granite tablets, which have multi-thousand-year MTBF....)

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