So enlighten us as to where you buy hard drives that they never fail.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's not a matter of not understanding when MY OWN experience is that I > have > >had more hard then soft errors. > > Stop buying drives from Toys-R-Us. > > >You seem to have a consistent problem of believing your experience equals > >facts. > > The change in MTBF stats from 2,000 to 300,000 is not just my experience. > You too can pull up a spec sheet and read it. Then you can experience it > too. We can all read the stats and make it a shared experience. > > >If I have a client who lost an entire days work because I chose to > >implement a solution that only solved soft errors I would be doing him a > >disservice. > > Taking such a position you would also have to protect them from meteor > strikes too. The essence of good management is the ability to properly > assess risk. > > >It was just a few weeks ago that this was exactly the case, a hard drive > had > >failed hardware wise and the engineering company would have been > completely > >down had it not been for a RAID. > > Stop buying drives from Toys-R-Us. > > And tell the rest of your clients that you wasted lots their money > protecting them from a problem that is very unlikely to happen. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
