It depends on whose raid controller you are using. If it's a newer HP/Compaq controller you can have 2 drives fail replace the failed drives one at a time "HOT" and not miss a read or write. Sam. Quoting "jimstreit at northlans.com" <jimstreit at northlans.com>: > 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