stinkingpig Wrote: > > More about pain and suffering: > 1) rebuilding a RAID 5 array after losing a drive takes a very long > time. > Like days and days. I haven't tried it with a SOHO RAID card and some > el > cheapo IDE drives, but top-of-the-line HPAQ and Dell cards with fast > SCSI > drives sure do suck. > Yikes, that does suck.
A couple years ago I built my own NAS box using a Mini-ITX board, a 3ware RAID card, and 4 Seagate 160 GB PATA drives (which seemed huge at the time) running Fedora Linux. One of the drives failed after a few months and I was able to replace it without any downtime, but the rebuild only took an hour. I've been very pleased with how the RAID card has performed, but I agree with others here that one shouldn't depend on RAID for a backup. I use the rsync command to back up the music files on the NAS box to an external USB drive, then I keep the USB drive in a fire safe. There's no way I want to go through all that ripping and tagging again. -- dem ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2504 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18555 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
