[tradersam]

I don't agree — that's why things like redundancy are commonplace. :D

[mulmen]

“You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and Who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one."

http://multivax.com/last_question.html

[anderspitman]

Huh, I don't think I've seen a reference to that story in years, but just emailed it to a coworker a couple hours ago.

[dsr_]

That's not a hard drive. That's a system built on top of hard drives.

And so is perkeep.

[tradersam]

That's incorrect. RAID is a system build on top of hard drives for redundancy. Redundancy (for this use of the word) is simply duplication across multiple hard-drives, which doesn't require a system at all.

[colorincorrect]

redundancy is not helpful if your system consistently fails after some regular interval