We missed it like global freezing, and that other catastrophe the inventor of the internet keeps droning about. Funny how all these RAID setups just keep humming along in face of the 'facts'.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can recall Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of > 3Com, writing in 1996 or so about the coming "Internet crash." He called > it > a "gigalapse." He publicly and very enthusiastically predicted that very > soon the Internet would not be able to handle the data load and would fail. > > I must have overslept that day and missed it. Oh yeah, I remember > something > about Y2K destroying the world too. > > IOW, I'll believe this latest apocalyptic prediction when I (or someone > else) see(s) it. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From Zdnet storage blogs - titled "Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009" > > Robin Harris discusses why RAID risks are starting to overwhelm its > > protections. A must read for anyone serious about storage (and > > especially retrieval) - not a be-all, but these risks are real and not > > considering them invites disastrous data loss. > > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
