Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Dana H. Myers wrote:
>
>> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> And this is different from any other storage system, how?  (ie, JBOD
>>> controllers and disks can also have subtle bugs that corrupt data)
>>
>>
>> Of course, but there isn't the expectation of data reliability with a
>> JBOD that there is with some RAID configurations.
>>
>
> There is not?  People buy disk drives and expect them to corrupt 
> their data?  I expect the drives I buy to work fine (knowing that 
> there could be bugs etc in them, the same as with my RAID systems).
>
So you trust your important data to a single drive?  I doubt it.  But I
bet you do trust your data to a hardware RAID array.

Ian
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