On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:16:45AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Because the controller's far more likely to go than the moving parts...
Having redundant everything would be preferable. But cables do sometimes fail. Not sure about the controllers, but if the controller went you might loose the whole raid. > On the models I saw they also literally gold plated the connectors, spun the > disks faster, and basically did everything they could think of to make the > same basic bundle of components more expensive. (Of course the fundamental > thing you do to make it more expensive is have smaller production runs in the > first place...) Well I guess the theory is that a gold plated connector won't corrode as much so the connection is less likely to fail. Not sure if there is any proof to backup that theory. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/