On Monday 09 January 2006 19:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > > I was under the impression RAID 0 was the fastest RAID, but has no data > > protection? Is there no way to get RAID 0 to use more than one drive? > > A RAID-0 array with only one drive in it would be pointless, but > possible. The mdadm tool will allow you to create RAID-0 arrays using > an arbitrary number of disks. The failure of any one disk would kill > the entire array, of course.
oops, I meant more than 2 drives... but your point about a single disc failure does concern me a little, didn't really think of it this way.... So if I have 3 drives available, I can go with RAID0 but lose one drive and the whole array is lost. RAID5 will let me recover, but I loose some speed. But it sounds like, from what I've read by some users, that they're able to get a good amount of write speed from RAID5 with 3 drives, and I wouldn't have to worry about data loss. If I can add drives in after initial creation, I could add in more of my 320gig drives I have with other media on them, increase write speed a bit and not worry about losing the other data as well. The wikipedia page has some great links at the bottom for those interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks -- Thanks for the help folks! Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
