From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret (was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:12:21 +0200
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Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com> writes:

> Just to add some support to this, all of the external RAID arrays that
> I know of normally run with write cache disabled on the component
> drives.

Do they use "off the shelf" SATA (or PATA) disks, and if so, which ones?
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Krzysztof Halasa