I consider
RAID as an availability measure - but how many installations
have you seen that have spare disks on-hand and procedures to monitor
and replace them? (I am sure the serious ones do. Elsewhere, every
cowboy sysadmin configures RAID on day 1... but where are the disks? :)
I do. But then some people think I'm crazy for running grownup
equipment with grownup procedures "at home".
So do I. I have spare disks for the two small arrays I run, and I even have
an entire new controller and backplane in case the array itself goes toes up.
I'll be getting a full body double for the POWER6 as soon as prices drop
enough.
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