[TriLUG] Hardware: Most reliable IDE HD brand?

[Michael Alan Dorman]

"Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org> writes:
> If possible, use a RAID 1+0 (sometimes called 10), if your drives are hot
> swappable.

Err, use RAID 1+0 (that is, mirror, then stripe on top of the mirror)
whether your drives are hot-swappable or not!  1+0 is more resilient
than 0+1 for certain drive failure patterns (and no worse for the
others).

Mike.