Silverline: "The geek's Russian roulette: Pull two disks from your RAID-5 and hope one of them is the hot-spare."
CmptrWz: I have done that before
Silverline: Only in this channel, out of all the ones I'm in (many), could I get that reply =)
CmptrWz: I won, too :P
CmptrWz: 5 Raid 5 arrays. Customer that was taking the entire thing down, all data already migrated to the new building. 5 techs, including two of theirs and the three contractors.
CmptrWz: The challenge was, without going into management interfaces, pick two drives to pull from each array such that the arrays would still function
CmptrWz: Then each of us was to pull the two from one of the arrays that we thought should be pulled for that array
CmptrWz: I was right on what the hotspare was on each of the five arrays. Nobody else got a single hotspare.