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Aug
17
2010
Hardware // Storage Technology

Why a HOT-SPARE Hard Disk is a bad idea?

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People are a bit surprised every time they hear this question from us. Conventional wisdom about Hot-Spares teaches us that it is a very nice idea: minimizing degraded array state, etc. So, why is using a Hot-Spare Drive a bad idea? It’s true that a Hot-Spare helps to minimize the duration of a degraded array state but our goal of creating a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is to continue operation and not to lose [...]

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