[cap-talk] RAID Woes

[Ben Laurie]

On 7/23/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> Many of you are not on the coyotos-dev list, but I urge you to look at
> my latest note there:
>
>   http://www.coyotos.org/pipermail/coyotos-dev/2007-July/001107.html
>
> It has absolutely nothing to do with capabilities. The thing to notice
> is that the economics of backup changed several years ago. It *can*
> happen to you.

"The most common cause of drive failure in modern enclosures is heat."

Google does not entirely agree...

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html