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In response to "wow. HD space is getting crazy cheap. i need to get a RAID -- nm" by colin

There was a great Slashdot article a few weeks ago about RAID and 1TB drives and how the two are dangerous

Posted by kilboooo (aka kkuphal) Nov 3 '08, 12:18

The rebuild time on a 1TB failed drive could exceed the mean time between failures on drives and end up killing your array because you get an unrecoverable error during the rebuild

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if i only use it for storage, not for working off of, is that a problem? -- nm - colin Nov 3, 12:19 5
- The point was that if this happens, you loose all the data on the array. If you don't care about the data - kilboooo Nov 3, 12:20 4
  - hm.. well question.. - colin Nov 3, 12:23 3
    - It is. The message is that because the drives are so large now, the time it takes to repair a damaged array when a drive goes bad - kilboooo Nov 3, 12:28 2
      - okay. so i guess just keeping my external hard drives will be the way to go. -- nm - colin Nov 3, 12:32 1
        
        Those will fail someday too -- nm - kilboooo Nov 3, 12:40

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There was a great Slashdot article a few weeks ago about RAID and 1TB drives and how the two are dangerous

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