[Info-vax] Buying disk for a DS10

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jIKdnTXyPaZFNvvQnZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 

> > These are non-shadowed drives, so I want reliable drives.
> 
> I'm not sure that there IS such a thing as a "reliable drive"!  One of 
> the primary reasons why we make disk backups is that disks are NOT 
> reliable.  The other reason for backups is human stupidity; somebody 
> deleted or overwrote a file that he/she should not have!

Disks are so cheap these days that there is really no excuse for not
having HBVS or some sort of RAID.