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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:19:34 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: drive selection for disk arrays
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:02 PM Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@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 i=
n
> 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...

--=20

"Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is =
no
wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred."

- The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata



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