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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by greedo on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:00PM (#37421988)
Actually, it's not uncommon for a batch of disk from a vendor (the same lot #) to have failures.

And again, a backup is fine for deleted data, or fire/ransomware. But for day to day operations, no one is really willing to wait for you to restore from a local backup, much less an offsite backup.

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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by thomastjeffery on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:43PM (#37439772)
> no one is really willing to wait

And they are willing to wait for you to rebuild your raid array?

Either you lost your data from a disk failure, or you are waiting to lose your data from a disk failure. How are we not on the same page here?

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Re:Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient ... by greedo on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:56PM (#37440784)
I think if you had worked/managed a SAN, you might realize that a single disk failure is a non-event. I'm not talking about a JBOD or an storage shelf using RAID5, I'm talking about a Netapp or similar system that can easily handle disk failures without interrupting service.
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