[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

>And if the RAID controller itself dies??

Well, raid controllers have a much longer product life than motherboards.  

If the motherboard dies more than a year or two from product launch you go
to eBay for a used one, NOT wanting to buy a used motherboard, NOT wanting
to buy even that old generation of stuff, hoping you can find the right
memory and processors if any that died with it, etc.  The next machine I
build will not have the same motherboard, or even the same processor, but it
will have the same raid controller.  The raid system is completely self
contained, and if it came to that I could yank it out and ship it across
country and you could install it and use the data on my raid array.

So if the raid controller dies I buy another identical raid controller.  I
already have two identical raid controllers in house.  The Areca controller
is still top of the line two years after I bought the first one, while the
motherboard is approaching end of retail lifetime, and I would never buy
another one intentionally for a new system.

I would of course scream very loudly because of the price for this specific
controller, but I could quite easily recover my data.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC

And if the RAID controller itself dies??  ;-)

I'd guess,  the first thing you would do is SCREAM VERY LOUDLY........ ;-)

GK

On 6/4/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Once you move to a dedicated raid controller, if the MB dies you can 
> move the raid controller to another machine and be back up and running 
> fairly quickly.


>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com

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