[OpenAFS] hard drive relaibility

[Ted Creedon]

During a drive upgrade a brand new WD29EFRX 2TB drive  containing my RW vol=
umes crashed.

After talking to drive recovery firms I've learned that the new reliability=
 philosophy is cheap drives & rely on the users RAID for recovery,

Fortunately I have 4 RO backups,

One repair firm said they see new drives with incredible amounts of dirt in=
side.

Here is a drive reliability report.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/228497-backblaze-releases-billion-hour=
-hard-drive-reliability-report

Looks like solid state drives + thumb drives for off site storage is the wa=
y ti go.

tedc