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New Did I ever say this...
GDMFS! I EFFING HATE HARDWARE RAID!

Had a situation where a controller type overflowed its buffer it kept time in.

Drives just disappeared.

GAH, newest firmware also. I friggin swear.

Spent nearly the *WHOLE* dang day rebuilding VMs from scratch since the drives just no longer had data on them.

Those that survived, were corrupt. Meh.
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greg@gregfolkert.net
PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05
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New Re: Did I ever say this...
Ah so that's what the call from BM this morning was all about. Good luck!
New Yeah...
I think it was tripped by sketchy drives...

Going to replace them one at a time... with faster/better drives for low price.

Better spec drives that are larger and cheaper than the replacements. Like $67 each NEW versus $180 refurbed with 30-day from purchase warranty.

Plus... the new drives have a 5 year warranty for additional $3. Insane.
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greg@gregfolkert.net
PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05
Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
New Probably why quality stuff is expensive.
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New Ummm...
This *WAS* when new a $105,000 machine.

128GB of memory ECC, Buffered memory, 8 processors (dual core), gobs of disk (at the time) all done with HardWare RAID, 4 power supplies, 7 NICs, formerly a processing node for an Oil Research company it had 2 - Quadra 5500 Video Cards (I think that was the model) in it for GPU processing.

These are enterprise drives that failed. The better NEW replacements are again inexpensive and for additional $3, the factory warrants them for 5 years vs the 2 years most drives come with now.
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greg@gregfolkert.net
PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05
Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
New I didn't make my point at all well.
I was actually referring to dedicated RAID hardware like what EMC have been making for decades.

But then, I haven't worked with high-end hardware like that, only seen it and used systems that sit on top of it.

Wade.
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     Did I ever say this... - (folkert) - (5)
         Re: Did I ever say this... - (Steve Lowe) - (1)
             Yeah... - (folkert)
         Probably why quality stuff is expensive. -NT - (static) - (2)
             Ummm... - (folkert) - (1)
                 I didn't make my point at all well. - (static)

Good evening, Mr. Gates. I'll be your server tonight.
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