From: "Geo." 

We use RFT (restore from tape) 

BTW, had a drive on one of our corporate host mail servers blow out the
other day. This drive was part of a 4 drive RAID 5 setup (3 plus hot spare)
using a mylex dac1100 series controller (this controller sucks imo).

So the drive blows out and the machine crashes. What??? I got to checking
things out and here the hot spare had failed a week ago but no alarms, well
it's only a spare right? So then when one of the data drives crashed the
stupid thing didn't know what to do and shut down.

There I am, no spare since I was under the impression that the hot spare
was actually a spare and I'd have time to order a drive if one failed. So I
took the circuit boards off the two bad drives, switched them to the other
bad drive and tried the drives again and one worked! Quick rebuild and it's
back up and running.

Raid5 is a love/hate thing with me... I have seen it work as advertised
exactly 1 time, and that was on an IBM RS6000 (a $20,000 box).

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4047ccdb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Anyone used any *other* HD recovery (cleanroom, subbing drive electronics,
> other low-level delicate stuff)  *besides* the excellent but EXPENSIVE
Ontrack
> Data Recovery in MN?
>
> Their prices are up to $700-2000 for current data sizes, 3-5 day service.
> Multiply that by 1.5 for 2-3 day.  For overnight, everyone stays awake
> service, openers are about $13k.
>
> --
>
> -frh
>

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