graywolf wrote: > Seems like folks here have a lot of hard drive problems, mine are very old > and never a glitch. I did kick a drive when it was running once and it > crashed (long story), since that was a 100 MEGAbyte drive so you can tell how > long ago that was. > > And then there are all you people saying your RAID crashed. ????? > > Just what type of RAID are folks on the list using? Raid zero is asking for > it, one better have a great back up scheme. Raid-1 or raid-10 should have all > the data on the other drives for a restore. Raid-5 should be fine unless more > than one drive goes at the same time. > > Of course I suppose that RAID has become a buzz word and many people are > calling JBOD (just-a-bunch-of-drives, what I currently running) RAID which it > is not. Anyway anyone who needs a computer tech's help should not be running > anything more complicated than raid-1 (mirrored drives). > > Anyhow, as I am soon going to be setting up a raid-5 array using secondhand > drives (first time setting one up for my own use), I would like to know just > what kind of problems folks have been having. > > And now the test, what did the acronym RAID originally mean? > > > RAID means redundant array of inexpensive disks, or something like that I think. My only experience with RAID is RAID 0 (which isn't really RAID, IMHO). One of the two SCSI drives refused to post one day. Lost it all. Doh!
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