[Info-vax] Buying disk for a DS10

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/26/2011 6:07 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.
>

The last time I looked, years ago, licenses for software based RAID were 
expensive.  Hardware RAID was also quite expensive.  Sometimes RAID is 
worth what it costs and sometimes not.