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by RyanMcGreal 5124 days ago
Fun anecdote: years ago, I worked for a department that had its server on a RAID setup, and when I asked about backups they said, "Don't worry". One day, a drive failed. They replaced it and started restoring from the other drive - which failed mid-sync. The two drives were from the same production lot and died literally within 12 hours of each other.

So: back up your data.
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jeromeparadis 5124 days ago
It happened to me. It happens the drives had a bug where there death time was hardcoded in the drives. Past a predetermined time of usage, they would fail. Of course, I never believed RAID was a backup strategy so I was able to recover.
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wiredfool 5124 days ago
I've had a raid controller fail by restoring as a raid 5 array where previously there was raid 10 array.
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