Losing a disk in your storage is a matter of when, not if. Here's an interesting discussion about whether or not IBM's XIX Systems Storage can recover in 30 minutes in real world situations.
A question about disk failure and limitations of support Was curious to know if anyone has:A: had to replace a disk in their XIVB: how long did it actually take to rebuild when it was replaced
Was curious to know if anyone has:A: had to replace a disk in their XIVB: how long did it actually take to rebuild when it was replaced
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We have had entire module failures. The time until we were back doing IO was mere seconds, the time to rebuild the module was much longer, 12+ hours if I recall correctly. That was due to our XIV being 80% full. Less room and resources to make the data moves and copies needed.
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