Comment by dang
4 years ago
The disks on both the primary and fallback servers definitely failed. Each was in a RAID setup, but those failed too in both cases.
4 years ago
The disks on both the primary and fallback servers definitely failed. Each was in a RAID setup, but those failed too in both cases.
Ouch! I'm assuming the disks were from the same batch and installed at the same time, but having at least four fail like that is just crazy unlucky.
Veteran programmer and HN user kabdib has proposed a striking theory that could explain everything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511.