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When I was a Customer Support Engineer for SGI way back, I had to swap out a load of IBM drives on lots of SGI kit at various customer locations due to this, wh
by scarygliders 12y ago
When I was a Customer Support Engineer for SGI way back, I had to swap out a load of IBM drives on lots of SGI kit at various customer locations due to this, which was dubbed "The IBM Stiction Problem".
Power off --> remove drive --> Sharply tap the drive on desk --> replace drive + add new drive --> clone
The look on customer faces at the "Sharply tap the drive on desk" stage was as priceless as the data on the hard drive B)
- mnw21cam 12y agoA while back, my workplace had a medium-sized disc array. That is, something like a hundred UW-SCSI 72GB drives, arranged into about twelve different RAID-5 sets. When we had to power it down because of scheduled electrical work in the building, about eight of the drives failed to come up again. It's a miracle none of the RAID-5 sets were broken. Hard drives don't like being switched off if they have been going for a couple of years. And that is why RAID is no substitute for backups, people. A reasonable proportion of events that will take out a hard drive will take out more than one.