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Re: [LUG] ide raid woes



On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:12:00 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> this is very unlikely due to the probability of failure. Excluding external 
> power surges and physical attack there is probably greater that a 99.9% 
> chance that the drives will fail at a different time.

Oh clever that you conveniently excluded power surges. Anyway the chance
two exactly the same HDs will fail at the same time is higher that your
pulled out the air figure of 0.01%.

Be logical!
-Kai

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