[olug] 2TB Harddrives On Sale

[Phil Brutsche]

If you are having a problem with a single drive failure killing a RAID
array then you are using the wrong drives.

The only drives you should be using in RAID arrays are enterprise-grade
SATA - Western Digital's RE drives and Seagate Barracuda ES - and SAS
drives. It does not matter if you are talking about a true hardware
RAID, a fakeraid, or an OS-specific software raid.

Consumer drives are cheap but this is a "you get what you pay for"
situation. Even when there is nothing wrong with the drive they have a
bad tendency to simply fall out of the array.

On 5/8/2010 2:07 AM, Charles Bird wrote:
> Speaking of RAID...and it may be the alcohol talking....  screw RAID5!!!
> Yeh, we all know it has a parity drive, 3 times now, with a single disk
> failure, I've seen a 5 go down, again, fyi.
> YES, take backups.
> End of message from beyond.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us