Originally posted by slimdave
And there's nothing so satisfying as seeing al your disk lights come on and go off at the same time. Well, there is, but that's another story.
Excpet, of course, when all the disks light up for one I/O. When I started my last job, the SA had all 80 disks in a Sun A3500 configured as one big RAID 5 filesystem. Everytime the database requested a block all 80 disks would light up!