On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: > Wow ..... ok, I am going to have to retrofit my Mac Pro with at least one > boot volume on SSD .... and as long as we have svn repos, IMAP Mail and Time > machine we should be fairly protected against the apparent SSD > marginally-worse reliability ;-) > > BTW, when I was researching the RAID stuff, I found an interesting article > that recommended picking 4 different drive brands/models for your RAID array > since if all drives are from the same brand/product/batch, there is a higher > likelihood of failure around the same time, especially if there was an > inherent quality problem in that batch. They actually related a real story of > a company that, IIRC, had bought 200 drives from IBM for RAIDs and they lost > complete RAID volumes due to all the drives failing at the same time due to > some quality defect in that batch!
You don't need them all to fail. Just two. I've seen it happen personally. Yes, different manufacturers and mechanisms is a good idea. Dave _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-deploy mailing list (Webobjects-deploy@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-deploy/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
