[Beowulf] Re: failure trends in a large disk drive population

[Chris Samuel]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Robin Harker wrote:

> So if we now know, (and we have seen similarly spirious behaviour with
> SATA Raid arrays), isn't the real solution to lose the node discs?

Depends on the code you're running, if it hammers local scratch then either 
you have to have them or you have to invest in the infrastructure to be able 
to provide that through a distributed HPC filesystem instead..

cheers!
Chris
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