On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 12:26 +0100, Nigel kendrick wrote: > I'm sure many will answer the questions, so for a different > perspective: Make sure you buy a drives from a number of > manufacturers, or get ones from different production batches - I was > once on a customer's site where two 'brand-x' drives in a RAID 5 array > went bad within minutes of each other due to a spindle bearing defect > and this took down the array. Not a bad suggestion. BTW, were they commodity disks? -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- It is mathematically impossible for someone who makes more than you to be anything but richer than you. Any tax rate that penalizes them will also penalize you similarly (to those below you, and then below them). Linear algebra, let alone differential calculus or even ele- mentary concepts of limits, is mutually exclusive with US journalism. So forget even attempting to explain how tax cuts work. ;->