[lug] Hard Drive Failure / somehow software issue?

[Bear Giles]

George Sexton wrote:
> bgiles at coyotesong.com wrote:
>> RAID is dangerous because "it should be able to handle that".  It 
>> does...
>> and then people are complacent and ignore the hardware errors until
>> multiple disks go bad and suddenly they've lost everything.  Or at least
>> it's very difficult to get it back, depending on the RAID configuration
>> and which disks went.
>
> High quality HW RAID OTOH CAN handle it.
Not when you have multiple disk failures.

To be clear, I wasn't saying that RAID can't handle a single disk 
failure.  The problem is getting a false sense of security and ignoring 
explicit warnings of (incipient) hardware failure since "RAID can handle 
it".  It can only handle one bad disk typically, then you're losing data 
again.  RAID buys you a bit of extra security, but you still have to 
maintain the hardware.