On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:00:03 +0100 "Aley Keprt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think different way. > If you have 10 disks you have 10 disks which may crash. > That's okay. > But it has nothing to do with RAID. > I say it is a nonsense to say that RAID increases possibility of disk > crashes. > Using many disks increases that possibility, regardless you use RAID or not. > RAID is innocent!!!!!
I was not talking about RAID in general. I was talking about RAID0 which implies more disks than 1, hence the increase in probability of a crash, since RAID0 has no redundancy built in. Remember that if you store all your data on, say 2 disks with RAID0, and you have a disk crash, ALL your data is lost. If you have 2 independent disks, only half your data is lost with ONE disk crash. If you have 10 disks in RAID0, ALL your data is still lost, while without RAID0, only 1/10th. -Frode
