[TriLUG] Re: Dieing hard drive?

[Lance A. Brown]

Brian Daniels wrote:
> Seconded.  Speaking from my experience as a net admin to a small business, I see 
> drives go much more often than they used to.  Worse, they go without saying 
> goodbye.  Older drives tended to get flakey and start showing odd behaviors that 
> would alert the user that things were going wrong.  New drives seem to be fine 
> today, completely unresponsive tomorrow morning.
> 
> RAID-1 has saved me from rebuilding 3 severs in the last year.

I'm seriously leaning towards a RAID-1 setup on my home server, just 
to help protect against drives dieing.

--[Lance]


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