That was my impression. I've been recommending to the boss that we stay with hardware raid 5. It hasn't burned me yet.
On 5/2/05, Carroll Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: > > 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. > > -- > > - Carroll Kong > -- G. Waleed Kavalec ------------------------------- Copyright: G. Waleed Kavalec 2005 This message may be resent and/or repuplished provided the content and this notice are kept intact.
