On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Robert Schnabel <schnabelr@missouri.edu> wrote:
> the phone with Seagate. When I built the first array I bought a single
> spare drive. As soon as two drives die I'm going to be in the position of
> having to either scrap all of them or buy a new controller that will work
> with the new firmware. If I hadn't bought that extra drive the array would
> be dead as soon as one of the drives goes.
>
> My point is... if you have the means, buy at least one spare while you can.
I'd go shopping for more spares on ebay now...