That's the beauty of RAID5 - you're only in trouble if 2 HDDs fail at once. If you're worried about that, then that's what RAID10 is for.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Stiehm Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 8:22 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose One month after I sent my server to my colo I had a hd fail on me. Thank god for raid 5 Kenny Loggins ClanAO.com On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:22 PM, "SmOoThEm" <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, if you colo your servers like we do then a hd failure costs a > lot of > time and money to get the os reloaded vs replacing one disk and > having no > downtime. ;) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Nowacki > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:42 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Harddrives which to choose > > msleeper wrote: >> Frankly I don't know why you would want to have a RAID setup for your >> game server anyway. Maybe you do something differently than I do >> but I >> don't keep any sensitive or un-backed up data on mine, and even >> then it >> can all be replaced pretty easily. Plugins can be redownloaded, >> maps can >> be reuploaded, configs can be replaced. Adding RAID is just >> complicating >> things unnecessarily. > > Because another disk is just so cheap compared to the total server > price, and you get high reliability and better read performance almost > for free. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4041 (20090428) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4041 (20090428) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
