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Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Posted Sep 8, 2009 6:25 UTC (Tue) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers? by dlang
Parent article: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

I don't know what 'high end storage servers' you are talking about, the even the multi-million dollar arrays from EMC and IBM do not have the characteristics that you are claiming.

Now that you mention it, I do remember that earlier IBM Sharks had nonvolatile storage based on a battery. Current ones don't, though. The battery's only job is to allow the machine to dump critical memory contents to disk drives after a loss of external power. I think that's the trend, but I haven't kept up on what EMC, Hitachi, etc. are doing. IBM's other high end storage server, the former XIV Nextra, is the same.


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