hard disk reliability

[Justin Moore]

> > Given the
> > reliability of the SCSI drives, would there be a financial advantage in
> > using this if the data was absolutely irreplaceable?
> 
> That's not necessarily why you use RAID. You can use it to decrease
> your downtime (redundancy), and to up your performance (striping). If
> you have a shop which uses 1,000 disks, and you're willing to spend
> money to avoid downtime, it doesn't matter if the data is "absolutely
> irreplaceable"...

Oops, forgot to clarify.  By 'this', I meant using RAID 10 vs using RAID
5.  If only english classes hadn't been so conducive to sleeping ...

-Justin Moore