[plug] RAID, and what it can't solve

[Craig Ringer]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:32, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, quoth Trent Lloyd:
> 
> > i beleive zombie recently had a tripple disk failure in a raid-5
> > ouch heh
> 
> yup, 3 out of 7 disks died at the same time, with a fourth one dying soon
> after.

It really makes you wonder if maybe the RAID 1 across 4 disks crowd
might have the right idea. If availability is the goal, then that's hard
to beat. Too bad about the need for large numbers of controllers,
expensive big cases, lots of power, and of course unbelievable numbers
of disks.

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Craig Ringer