Sorry, ammendment needed... I lost my sentence half way through...
Although that is a step in the right direction, why not go to raid 5,
whereas data lost from a stripe set without parity (Raid 1) is
unrecoverable,
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data from a stripe set with parity can usually be recovered,
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unless of course more than one disk in the array fails. You also need at
least 3 HDD for Raid 5, but an extra HDD is a very minimal cost.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 8:08 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Software RAID
Hi
it has been suggested to me that I configure a server to use software
RAID 1, with two IDE drives, to provide a measure of redundancy. I'm
dubious.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of arrangement:
specifically with the RAID performance and the impact on the server?
Yes, this is an attempt to d othings on the cheap :-)
Slainte
Gordon
