Re: All software sucks. All hardware sucks. Put the two together ...

Stuart Lamble wrote:
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I'm now wondering exactly what it's plotting to even out the scales...

The new software requires that you reformat all ~210 drives?

The new software will send you a "drive has failed" e-mail. Repeatedly.
Every 15 milliseconds.

Two drives will fail simultaneously, causing the whole RAID to fail?

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