23 Dec
2014
23 Dec
'14
08:23
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:03 AM, jdd
the raid is only useful if the disks are hot swappables
No; the RAID is useful to avoid *unplanned* downtime. If you cannot afford downtime to replace failed disk, you need hot swappable disks indeed.
I stopped trust raid when I learned than no raid system (in the basic price list) do control the sanity of *all* the used disks sectors. If you have *two* disks failing at the same time, you are done... and it's not uncommon.
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