On 10/5/07, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Duncan wrote: > > > > What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and > > the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help > > next time). > > This is good advice in general. If you have never used LVM look into > it. Once your partitions are on LVM it is VERY easy to migrate them to > a new drive. You can do it while the system is running as a matter of fact. > > Ditto for raid. I don't know that it is really essential in all cases, > but I've got a mythtv setup with the better part of 1TB of storage, so I > migrated it to software raid. It isn't worth the money to come up with > an offsite backup solution for TV shows, but I'd rather not lose > everything if one of my multitude of hard drives fails either. So I use > RAID5 to cover drive failures, and I do offsite backups of selected > files of higher value (a few GB).
In my case I'm very noise sensitive. I do a lot of audio work and don't want additional hard drive noise in here. In my mind that rules out multi-drive RAID and I guess I don't see how any form of single-drive RAID helps if the issue is the drive doing bad. Probably I'm not aware of all the value of doing all of that work. Maybe there would be significant reliability gains but it's a subject that is pretty far beyond me today. I'm also has concerns that 1) the drive could go sooner than later causing me to have more work getting the system set up again and 2) if I do add some form of RAID that it will cause problems for the cloned Win XP installation being it isn't there now. And how does LVM work for Windows anyway? I thought that was a Linux thing? Maybe everything Duncan said is right, and I'll give it some thought, but my #1 worry is trying to make sure the system doesn't go down hard and leave me with a week's worth of work getting Humpty Dumpty back together again that I don't need right now. Thanks all, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
