drive selection for disk arrays

[Michael Sierchio]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:02 PM Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:

>
> The disturbing frequency of multiple drives going offline in quick
> succession is, in my view, largely a result of defects being discovered in
> quick succession, rather than occuring in quick succession.


That really got my attention, and I was guilty of thinking you were
committing
an epistemological error.  Fortunately I was wrong, and the universe
(esp. of disk arrays) is counter-intuitive...

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