Yep, I had 2 drives fail at the exact same time in a RAID-5 array with 14 disks. Curiously enough, most of the drives I've had fail, it's been the board on them, not the mechanicals. I just swapped out boards and got my data back. On Aug 18, 2004, at 9:12 AM, jimstreit at northlans.com wrote: > With RAID 5 if 1 drive fails your OK, but if 2 fail, your dead and > looking for > your backup, backup, backup. > > Quoting smac at visi.com: > >> The word "refurbished" is a misnomer; generally a refurbished drive >> is a >> "used" >> drive. In general the drive was returned with a machine coming off a >> lease. >> I'm still using both ATA and SCSI drives that were used/refurbished >> without a >> >> problem. Be aware that they may fail and understand that it's your >> risk. >> >> Backup, Backup, Backup, is the only thing I can say about used drives. >> >> I run 5 Seagate Barracuda SCSI drives in my Proliant in a RAID 5 >> configuration, >> this limits data loss if 1 or 2 drives fail. >> >> Sam. >> >> >> Quoting Sreekumar Kodakara <skodak at cs.umn.edu>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am on the look out for Ultra320 SCSI disk drives. This is to >>> increase >>> the storage capacity of one of our Itanium-2 servers, which we use >>> for our >>> research. I checked out at bizrate.com and found drives (73.4 GB, >>> maxtor >>> and seagate) starting at $130 for refurbished ones and $230 for new >>> ones. >>> Sisnce we have some constraints on purchases > $200, we are thinking >>> of >>> getting regurbished ones. Are refurbished drives reliable? Any >>> good/bad >>> experiences? Any good place to get such drives? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Sreekumar >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list