As a follow up to my question on file server distros, I have a question about RAID 1 (mirror or redundant drives).
I am think of having this file server use RAID 1 because the motherboards these days have support for it in the chipset. But I am a bit leery of this approach. So, with RAID 1, does RAID do anything different to the mirrored drives--anything nonstandard? In other words, if I took one of those RAID drives (one that had been used in a RAID 1 set, that is mirrored, and took one of those drives and put it into a single drive, non-RAID box, could I mount it as usual and have a conventional drive and see all of the previously mirrored data? Or can I only recover the data using the same chipset-based mirrored configuration? It seems to me that RAID 1 is perfect in the event of a disk failure, but what happens in the event of a motherboard failure? I would want to be able to have access to the data using a non-RAID system if need be. Thanks, -Andres /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
