[sdw2003] Nth Generation: A STORAGE REVOLUTION!

[Tracy R Reed]

John Oliver wrote:
> So what do you do when a disk in this "sealed" enclosure does die?

 From what I've read you just don't replace the drive. There are plenty 
more drives and plenty of redundancy. If enough drives fail to make it 
worthwhile you just replace the whole unit although I'm not sure at what 
point that would ever happen. Also, they say that a large precentage of 
drive "failures" which would normally be hard fails in other systems are 
actually recoverable. First they just power cycle the disk. Then their 
system has a bunch of low level diagnostics and even low level 
formatting which can be employed to attempt to resurrect the disk. It's 
an interesting idea. Although I don't see it as anything that someone 
else couldn't also implement. I read the storagemojo.com blog regularly 
and he recently had a couple of things to say about Xiotech:

http://storagemojo.com/

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