Reply to post: @Pen-y-gors Re: Some sympathy -but not a lot

BT customers hit by broadband outage ... again

Vince

@Pen-y-gors Re: Some sympathy -but not a lot

"Having recently had a 5-day outage at the bods who do some of my hosting (how often do both drives in a RAID setup fail at the same time?"

When they're from the same batch, same make, same model, same usage pattern (RAID-1 would suggest exactly that by design)...

...quite often actually. One of the (many) reasons we mix drive models/batches/makes in RAID arrays

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