[Cutter]

Has anyone ever felt the sigh of relief that comes from being saved by RAID? I did today..

A drive on one of my production servers took a header early this morning. Thank goodness for redundancy.

 

[RR_TX]

What type of drives are you running and how long have the drives been running before they failed? Yes RAID is a beautiful thing..

 

[Cutter]

I've got two 500GB SATA II drives (10K RPM, 3.0GB/sec) setup as RAID 1.
I was a little surprised (impressed) that it took about 2 hours to rebuild the mirror once the failed drive was replaced.

The drive that failed was not old at all, probably 6 months. BUT, we abuse hard drives pretty good. A lot of IO taking place. I have to defrag daily (diskeeper btw is a great background defrag product )

 

[.NET Programmer]

This post makes me want to change from RAID 0 now.