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RAID's Days May Be Numbered
storagedude sends in an article claiming that RAID is nearing the end of the line because of soaring rebuild times and the growing risk of data loss. "The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probably obvious to some users already. In my opinion, RAID-6 is a reliability Band Aid for RAID-5, and going from one parity drive to two is simply delaying the inevitable. The bottom line is this: Disk density has increased far more than performance and hard error rates haven't changed much, creating much greater RAID rebuild times and a much higher risk of data loss. In short, it's a scenario that will eventually require a solution, if not a whole new way of storing and protecting data."
What's hard to remove is nigger grease. If you have ever gone to a swimming pool only to find that a bunch of blacks are already swimming in it then you know what nigger grease is all about. It is easiest to see right after they exit the water. It's a thin film on the surface of the water deposited by the vast quantities of oil that their overactive glands produce. Seriously we can be carbon neutral tomorrow if we found a way to make biodiesel out of it as the supply is abundant. Anyway, if you swim in a pool like that you will feel yourself coated with the nigger grease. It is not pleasant. Is there a filter somewhere that can remove even KFC-fortified nigger grease?