20 Sep 2008 @ 1:59 AM 
 

Recipe: how to lose 2TB of data

 

You will need the following ingredients:

- Promise FastTrak 4310 SATA RAID controller with latest BIOS (2.8.1.0004) and drivers (2.6.1.318)
- four Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 1TB SATA drives
- 2TB of really important data

1. install the Promise controller in PCI slot
2. boot to OS and create RAID5 array on all 4 drives
3. start transferring files to the newly created array
4. fill up 2 terabytes and enjoy the error message
5. spend two days trying to recover the files
6. spend another two days trying to recover yourself

This recipe is OS independent.

Tags Categories: hardware Posted By: mart
Last Edit: 20 Sep 2008 @ 01 59 AM

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