Thanks for the replys.
First, a hard drive does not necessarily have to have spinning media. An SSD is a hard drive. (See definition below) Second, SSDs dye like spinning media. Therefore, RAID 5 is still necessary.
OCZ finally started the RMA process on the dying drive.
RMA request started on 07/09/12.
The RMA OK came in on 09/28/12.
Today is 10/6/12. I haven't received the replacement drive yet!
A residence without a computer for 3 months is one thing. A business without is a completely different matter. Thanks to RAID 5 I am still the network administrator for this company! (By the way, when this drive failed, it stopped the computer completely. I had to remove this drive and power off the system. The RAID recovered to the "HOT" spare on reboot. Something is wrong, it should not have brought down the system on failure.)
The RMA came in no small part to opinions like in this blog. I'm not happy, but I beleive I will receive satisfaction.
A hard disk drive (HDD; also hard drive, hard disk, or disk drive)[2] is a device for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard drives are classified as non-volatile, random-access, digital, magnetic, data storage devices. Introduced by IBM in 1956...