From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Lethe" Subject: RE: Re: Re: Two Drive Failure on RAID-5 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:24:00 -0500 Message-ID: <122201c8bad9$0050f26a$3501a8c0@exchange.rackspace.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Keith Roberts , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids the disk manufacturers stopped making them last year, and stopped R&D on them way before that. -----Original Message----- From: "Keith Roberts" Subj: RE: Re: Re: Two Drive Failure on RAID-5 Date: Tue May 20, 2008 5:20 pm Size: 1K To: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" On Tue, 20 May 2008, David Lethe wrote: > To: Cry , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > From: David Lethe > Subject: RE: Re: Re: Two Drive Failure on RAID-5 > > Here is a good analogy that puts this in perspective. I haven't seen > anybody equate the two yet, so get the name right if you quote this ;) > > Disk drives are like light bulbs. You can buy the server class (similar > to CFLs), or desktop (incandescent). If you don't mind the dark, > replace them as they fail, and buy spares as they go on sale. > Conversely, if you have to maintain a vaulted ceiling chandelier, and > are afraid of heights, then spending twice as much for never having to > deal with *THAT* again will seem like a bargain. > > - David Lethe So are there such things as server class EIDE drives? Or are they all SCSI or SATA? Keith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html