On Monday 02 August 2004 05:53 am, Danny Sauer wrote:
Given the low cost of IDE drives and the low probability that more than one member of the array will fail at any given time, I don't see any reason to go with SCSI on a hardware RAID card -
If you buy all your disks at the same time from the same source they are usually close to sequential serial numbers, manufactured in the same plant on the same day. To this add the fact that you will use them the same amount (especially mirrored) and power them up and down the same number of cycles. Reason (and experience) indicates that they may well fail very close together. I have known raid drives to fail within days of their array mates, and I usually get the call after the SECOND one fails, the users just ran right thru the first failure. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen