On 2013-03-06, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > This is surprising to me. I've had one 3ware controller fail in 10 years. I realized that this is untrue. I have had three 3ware controllers fail on me in 10 years, out of about 25. That's actually a pretty poor failure rate. Two of those failures were not fatal--they would crash the disk subsystem (and for the one which hosted the / filesystem, cause a kernel panic), but not destroy the filesystems. One of those two, and the other which did trash the filesystems, were out of warranty at the time of failure. (But I have even older 3ware controllers which are still perfectly fine.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us