Pay extra for peace of mind
Sometimes you’re glad you spent that little bit more money on resiliency. Today is that day. I’ve just been informed by our ISP that one of the disks in the server that brought you this page has died and gone to hard disk heaven.
The last time that happened we had some bad downtime. Lesson learnt. If what’s running on your server is in any way valuable to you then pay the extra money and get a RAID based server with disk mirroring. In these days of cheap SATA based RAID systems, disk mirroring is not expensive and one day you may be very thankful that you did.
Fingers crossed that the other disk doesn’t die before Monday, when the disk is scheduled for replacement.
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Monday? I have an extra disk sitting on top of the server just in case one of the drives in the array fails. Since our server is on the other side of the country, it helps. (grin)
Quote | Posted January 11, 2008, 3:16 pmTarus - good idea. We use a data centre somewhere in the UK, funnily enough I don’t have a clue where, so we can’t access the servers ourselves. The people who do can only schedule the job in on Monday afternoon after work.
BTW…we’ve fixed the comment quote problem. The bug was inherited from the template we used as the basis for our custom template.
Quote | Posted January 11, 2008, 3:21 pm