From: "William Josephson" <jkw_at_eecs.harvard.edu> > People at Berkeley (and elsewhere) have done user studies to try to > quantify this sort of thing. It is pretty clear that with modern > hardware, most failures are due to human error. That's not to say > that hardware and software faults aren't real problems, too, but it > is more common that someone, say, pulls the wrong drive from the > RAID-5 array, resulting in an unnecessary double disk fault. that means your raid 5 is bust. i've seen raid 5 fail and it just picks another disk in the 'free' pool like nothing has happened. a study? it's bleeding obvious.Received on Fri Nov 21 2003 - 19:14:17 UTC
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