------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: How often do you have hard drive failures of your music server? - 1 or more a year - 2 or more in mutliple years - Never - All the time ------------------------------------------------------------------------
cliveb;323459 Wrote: > > I'll go further and suggest that RAID only makes sense in two > scenarios: > > 1. You're running a critical system that must stay running if a spindle > fails. > 2. You need the disk read performance boost that can come from > striping. > > Neither of these strikes me as relevant in a home media server.The third > scenario that makes a lot of sense to me is if you have a large data store you'd like to keep consolidated eg my audio library. which is going to exceed 3GB in due course. A JBOD partition would be disastrous in the event of a disk failure whilst a RAID 5 or 6 array at least provides a chance of recovery in the event of a disk failure. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
