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No it isn't you just need to do proactive maintenance on your array... and/or backup your data.

If you use RAID5 on any size array with out making backups you will lose data. Does he really think that with the invention of 1TB+ drives that it's the first time two drives have failed at once?



Back in the days when all 10 of your Seagate 120GB drives would die in a span of 2 months, sometimes two or three popping off in the same day.




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