==> In article <DCDADCD5729B7749A817C533425F93E3170CEC AT 
aplesliberty.dom1.jhuapl DOT edu>, "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL 
DOT EDU> writes:


> But,
> BE VERY CAREFUL about the quality of disk you buy, if that is going to be
> your only copy of the data.
> DO NOT THINK that you can't lose a RAID array; I have seen it happen, twice.
> It depends TOTALLY on the quality of the controller card in the RAID array.
> If it goes south, all you've got is a bunch of unrelated magnetized bits on
> your disk.

I second the motion.  We've had RAID controllers go belly-up before, too.
Eugh.


> And for sites that have ARCHIVE or HSM data (which may not exist any more on
> the client machines), there is NO magnetic media reliable enough that you
> can be safe with just 1 copy (except maybe those tapes they put in airline
> black-boxes, but I don't know where to buy those :>).


That's a wire spool.  And unfortunately it's a loop; (like an 8-track) so it's
not really useful for us.


- Allen S. Rout