Re:Dude, get over it (Score 1)

There might be varying levels of quality among specific brands and models, but data loss is inevitable if your only line of defense is faith in your bullet proof manufacturer who has never failed on you before. .... Some people have an incredible string of luck with Seagate, others with WD, etc. They all die. If you don't have a robust backup plan that you test regularly, you're going to get fucked at some point. If you've worked with computers long enough, you learn this and understand it.

I disagree. Hard Drive vendor quality is huge. If enough drives fail in an array, then the raid will be hosed. Maxtor makes unreliable hard drives, so one is treading thin ice if they use these drives to store valuable data. I have lost several raids by having multiple drives fail at once. Even very fast synchronization methods will require some amount of time between write operations to the raid and moving data to an external location. Unreliable hard drives make a system far from bullet proof even with a sophisticated backup system in place.