From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: matt <listy@fastmail.fm>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: silent data corruption reading from hard drives
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:56:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5019D052.4000409@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50191ADE.10809@fastmail.fm>
On 8/1/2012 7:02 AM, matt wrote:
> Is silent data corruption like this simply to be expected when using cheap
> commodity hardware?
When you pay less than 1/4th the price of one drive for the controller
card directing all your drives, is it really necessary to ask this question?
Two large pizzas cost more than a Syba/Rosewill/Koutech/etc SATA card.
The pizza is consumed in one night, maybe some for breakfast. Would you
trust a day worth of pizza with your RAID? With your data?
One tank of gas for the average car today costs $50, the same as two of
these SATA cards. The gas is gone in a week or two. You want the cards
to run for 2-4 years.
Your drives cost anywhere from $400-$1000, yet your controller maybe
$50. Do I really need to say any more? Spend $150-250 on a decent
SAS/SATA controller such as an LSI or Adaptec and you won't have to
worry about this kind of thing.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-02 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 12:02 OT: silent data corruption reading from hard drives matt
2012-08-01 13:03 ` Roman Mamedov
2012-08-02 0:56 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2012-08-02 1:07 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-08-02 1:14 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-08-02 1:27 ` Adam Goryachev
2012-08-02 1:35 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-08-02 3:23 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-02 13:02 ` Drew
2012-08-02 3:19 ` Roman Mamedov
2012-08-02 7:51 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-02 8:06 ` Roman Mamedov
2012-08-02 9:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-02 12:26 ` Iustin Pop
2012-08-02 16:59 ` listy
2012-08-02 17:04 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-08-02 17:13 ` Jeff Johnson
2012-08-02 17:19 ` Roman Mamedov
2012-08-02 17:25 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-08-02 17:22 ` Roberto Spadim
[not found] ` <501AB9D8.1030404@turmel.org>
2012-08-02 18:32 ` listy
2012-08-03 13:36 ` Phil Turmel
2012-08-15 21:55 ` Peter Grandi
2012-08-16 7:30 ` Oliver Schinagl
[not found] ` <CABYL=TqU6qvDK-CuFak42iVNj0v4OcvALXOnr=6XLM4HyXfGkw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-16 14:33 ` Roberto Spadim
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