Question,  why use mirroring on an 12h disc array?  When we set up a new
system here we had a 12h fully loaded configured in.  Within the first 2
months we had 2 drives fail.  The system slowed down (considerable)
while it rebuilt the bad drive but the system never went down.

Steve Belkacem wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> 1. We currently use mirroring on out production
> machines. The feeling is that it is not a very good
> system due to every time a primary disc has failed ,
> the switchover to the secondary drive has not happened
> and therefore the software is a waste of time.
>
> I am , in a very open minded way, presuming that this
> is due to the mirroring was setup incorrectly at the
> time . Would this be a correct assuption ?
>
> Would any users of the system please give me their
> opinion on this.
>
> 2. 12H Autoraid.
> Again I'd like to hear other peoples thoughts on this.
> >From being in a position where I was happy to move to
> this, I keep hearing horror stories (not direct) which
> is unsettling to say the least.
>
> 3. Any other solution for the resilance ?
>
> Many Thanks in Advance
>
> Steve
>
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