[K12OSN] RAID let me down...

[Shawn Powers]

I had one of my hard drives fail in a hardware RAID5 array this  
morning.  Along with the drive failure, I have thousands, maybe  
hundreds of thousands of file corruptions, missing inodes, etc, etc.   
I've been fscking all morning.  So much for fault tolerance.

My question to the list, is should I switch to a software based  
array?  I use software RAID5 at home, and apart from figuring out  
*which* drive is "drive 4", I've been able to replace a bad drive  
without any real headaches.

Any suggestions on what I should do next?  Apart from quitting my job  
and applying at McDonalds...

-Shawn
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Shawn Powers
Technology Director
Inland Lakes Schools
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