On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:43:26PM -0700, Rudy Setiawan enlightened us: > I am trying to create backup servers out of the following specs: > P4 3.0Ghz > 1GB RAM > RAID0 - 750GB x 2 (SATA) > > Hosts to backup: about 20 hosts with roughly 100GB each host. > > What will be the complications and the limitations? > And also what are the recommendations? >
You realize that by using RAID 0, you are doubling the chance of losing all of your backups, because there is NO redundancy - so if either of your disks has a problem, you lose the entire array. If it is only temporary and you are then moving the data to something else, that might be all right, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with my backups (or anything other than scratch space, really) being on RAID 0. I would use RAID 1, or if you have disks to spare RAID 10. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
