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Originally Posted by hdkiller
always use hotswap disks with mirroring
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+1
I did this on the last server I ordered, and it's already paid off. One drive started misbehaving and disconnected from the RAID1 array, it was replaced without needing to reboot.
Things were a bit slower while the array rebuilt, but it's better than downtime (and the array still needs to rebuild even without hotswap bays)
I'd been about to go with another company and had spent some time negotiating specs and prices when it came out at the last minute that my specific request for hotswap bays had been "overlooked" by their sales rep, and they couldn't do it. No worries he says, we can replace a failed HD for you quickly... but the problem is that to do that they need to: shut down the server, unplug it, derack it, open it up, swap the HDs, put everything back together, rerack it, plug it back in, power it up. That's exactly what I wanted to avoid!
