> After 6 Months its only failure was the only non redundant part - The
> RAID Controller board, and the OEM had non in stock.

That has always been a concern of mine.  One must accept that it will
fail.  Regardless of expense, build quality or company reputation.

I often have debates here at work where people want to spend
outrageous sums for reliability where I prefer to have a well thought
out cost effective simple solution for when it does fail. And no
matter what solution they propose, I can quickly identify a single
point of failure which sometimes has been multiplied in an attempt to
provide some redundancy.

We have experienced RAID failures which where costly in down time.
These were serious RAID controllers for their time but they are
complex to manage and time consuming to recover from.

I would enjoy a trip thru a google data center to see how they manage
to never loose my emails for no perceived cost to me.

Justin
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