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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 ports to unix (including libdraw)
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:56:31 -0400
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> > real data.  Especially now that my Venti server is mirrored
> > across two different-model 200GB IDE drives.
>
> How about IDE problem which Niger wrote.

That's why I'm mirroring across two different-model 200GB drives.
The theory is that they're not that likely to fail simultaneously.
If you believe that a drive will fail once a year (which I think is high)
then two drives independently failing together will happen once
every few centuries, which is low enough that I can worry about
other problems, like my apartment catching fire.

Russ