17 Mar
2004
17 Mar
'04
5:40 p.m.
Steve Strange writes: [...]
Data ONTAP 6.5 features RAID-DP, or RAID double parity, which makes this problem disappear. The RAID group would then have double redundancy, and could handle a media failure during the reconstruct of a single disk without data loss or downtime.
Can anyone elaborate on how this works, in detail?
Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk