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Reminder -- RAID 5 is not your friend



On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> Were the two drives that failed both same mfr and same lot?

Indeed, they are, as are the other 2 good (for the moment) drives.
The controller is currently rebuilding the mirrors.  Once that's finished I'm going break the mirrors and replace the remaining old drives as well so it'll be a full replacement with what should be better unmatched disk pairs.

--Rich P.








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