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To: Paul Engel who wrote (49849)	3/6/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Paul: Slightly off-opic Re: Hard drive reliability The site I support utilizes Intel Paragon supercomputers, with each one housing 50 Seagate 4 GByte SCSI disks (in 10 level-3 RAIDs with 5 disk per RAID). These disks are POUNDED 24 hours a day solving very large systems of linear equations. I would estimate that they are receiving 1000x more reads/writes than an average desktop disk (maybe less for a server). They are quite reliable, though they do occasionally fail. Sometimes they can be reconstructed using the RAID-3's parity and put back in service, other times they are completely dead. Don't know much about price, however. Personally, if I had an NT system with important data, I'd opt for RAID level 1 (mirroring) using disk duplexing, especially with the decline in disk prices. Adam

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