Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (

On 11/16/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> If you have a cool SAN, it alerts you and removes all data off a disk
> _before_ it starts giving hard failures :-)
>
> /* Steinar */
> --
> Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/

Good point. I have avoided data loss *twice* this year by using SMART
hard drive monitoring software.

I can't tell you how good it feels to replace a drive that is about to
die, as compared to restoring data because a drive died.
--
Matthew Nuzum
www.bearfruit.org