On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Hardware RAID is great---until you no longer have the ability to replace</div>
the controller with an exactly identical one. And then you have to rely<br>
on luck.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>I think the unofficial way of making a hardware RAID card purchase is: take the age (in years) of the oldest running system your CTO has ever been responsible for, multiply by 2, round up to the nearest 10, buy that number of RAID cards to keep as backups. You will either use them all, or make a fortune selling them to desperate souls who don't know this secret.<div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>.!# RichardBronosky #!.<br>
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