> > 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. >
This system had nearly a terabyte of small files (maildir email, mmmmm, so chewy), and it had to have been 3 years ago, so in fairness maybe things have gotten better in the RAID world. Still, I think we've all made it clear that it ain't the same as a backup copy :) -- Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture... "Believe what you're told; there'd be chaos if everyone thought for themselves." -- Top Dog hotdog stand, Berkeley, CA _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
