On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:
> reliability but data security. If your raid controller dies, your
> data becomes unavailable, but the same is true of e.g. your CPU,
> your motherboard etc. Replace or repair the failed component, and
> your data is back (assuming that the failure mode didn't include
> writing random crap everywhere).
This presumes you can find the same RAID controller to replace it, or
a similar model from same vendor, compatible with the model which
wrote metadata out to those disks..
Personally, I'll never ever again allow RAID metadata on disk to be
in proprietary, vendor dependent format.
regards,
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