Some people are saying good things about raid 10 (sriping and mirroring).
Any comment?
On 4/30/05, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glad to hear you learned the lesson the easy way about stripe sets. With RAID 0 you have greater speed but if either of the drives fails you lose ALL your data. And you can only access it through a RAID controller of the same type. RAID 1 (mirroring) is what you want for data security, but it comes at a price since you need 2 drives to do the job of 1 and you lose some write speed, depending on your controller.
-- Brian
As all things in life, the good stuff is never cheap. RAID 10 requires at least 4 harddisks at 50% capacity and can be terribly expensive to migrate upwards without an intelligent RAID controller that supports RAID extending.
Lately I have been a bit disappointed with IDE RAID at least with backplanes. Ah well, we will see. My desktop based RAIDs are fine and I recently broke my RAID10 into a RAID1 with 2 JBODs for much easier migration and backups.
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- Carroll Kong
