> "
> Is it possible for the disk shelf to completely fail?
>
> "
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> This is EXTREMELY far fetced...... but even if it somehow did, yoiu're
> data is still valid. In a large TB area, using multiple shelves, select
> a drive from each shelf as part of the RAID group... basically, your
> RAID groups are 'vertical'... and this eliminates single points of
> failure..
Not as farfetched as you might think. It happened to us within the past
couple years. I don't remember the details, but we had to bypass the
failed shelf to even get the filer back up.
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