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On Jan 9, 2013 10:41 PM, "Holger Hoffstaette" < |
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holger.hoffstaette@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC) |
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> >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a |
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long |
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> > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen. |
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> Well, that's the point. |
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> http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ |
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> Things are much worse than you think. |
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> -h |
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But that link also shows a bright light: RAID arrays are in general more |
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reliable, with BER less than one-third their spec. |
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Rgds, |
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