On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:38 -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:30:26 -0500, Harry Hoffman > <hhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hmm, what arrays are you using? It seems "more than common" with both > > Sun arrays and LSI (or IBM re-badged) arrays. > > > > Anyone else have experiences, good or bad? > > Our company is having a horrific failure rate on the RAIDs in our > Dells. Our service guys say that in the 6 months we've had them at > the customer sites, we've had to replace nearly 30% of them. ---- temperature matters - I had a problem at one office until I found that the server room went un-airconditioned in the building during the weekends in summer (this is Phoenix). I suspect this had a lot to do with a few disk failures that this customer had. Room now has it's own air conditioner. Craig
