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spoold on June 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Grasshopper Outage: Co-Founders Response

The way you've worded this, and the official response, it reads like you didn't have hot spares available?

That being the case, the two disk failures didn't need to be concurrent for you to end up where you did...

dh on June 10, 2011 [–]

RAID-DP and the array always has a hot spare, and we had one cold spare on-site and another there within hours to replace the 2nd failure.

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