SATA Unrecoverable errors and how that impacts RAID

You may have been reading lately about the END OF THE WORLD… oh wait, sorry, just how RAID-5 is completely screwed over the next few months. Well, I am here to try and help shed some light on the situation, and hopefully, not spread some crap on it.

Did someone say snow cones?

Wow, I came across an interview with Brad Brooks, VP for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, over at CNET. This is the usual interview in which a Microsoft VP tries to regurgitate marketing material as responses to an interview. However, this interview has 2 things going for it:

The interviewer, Ina Fried, keeps asking real [...]