Kevin, Thank you. I thought maybe I was the only person thinking this. RAID-5, battery backed up caching controller, BIG UPS, dual redundant power supplies...I'm not too worried about this either. I'll keep write-ahead on. ;-)
--Todd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Bilbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:18 AM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Optimum RAID 5 Stipe Size for Imail Server > As to this if you get a controller with a battery it should not be a > problem. I make shure all of our RAID controllers have battery backup just > for this reason. > > > > > I would recommend, with some thought, that you disable write behind > > > caching on all your drives. I say this because if you have a hd > > > drive failure, or system shutdown unexpectedly, then it wouldn't be > > > able to perform the last 'write' action. (data would be lost) > > > because it was cached and the drive was inaccessible. > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
