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On 03/18/08 15:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
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changes in HD tech).  6.  I have seen dozens of catastrophic  hardware
controller failures with complete data lost and not one mdadm failure.
    
That just means you're using sucky hardware.  We've been using h/w
controllers for 15 years, and never had a problem.
Of course, they are proprietary, and from a Tier 1 vendor, cost a
lot of money, and maintenance fees are high.
But we've never lost data from a controller failure.  (And damned
little loss from any other reason, either, since there's a 24x7
admin staff that pays attention to drive failure lights, and
replaces them immediately.)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA