In message , Andy Champ
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Clint Sharp wrote:
Not really, apart from *never* listen to Dell support if they tell
you to re-seat a failing/failed disk, demand an exchange or
replacement.

People fall for that? When that happens to me I regard it as good luck
that I've a warning of an upcoming failure!
Far too regularly, despite having been warned several times, otherwise
intelligent people in jobs that have much higher pay rates than mine do
this and then call me out to mop up the damage.

Plenty of other PERC disasters as well, but that's the most common.

All my critical systems are on some sort of PERC...
Ahh. Of course you test your backups regularly I hope.

IT department look after that. TBH I trust at least one of them.
Lol, good, but do your IT department actually test the backups by
restoring to different hardware/disk space or do they just rely on
verifying it?

Andy

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Clint Sharp