PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread Carmonne
Hi All I have a PM G5 2.7 DUAL and I'm installing a Jive 5 unit and a Seritek card to allow 5 2TB drives internally. I need some expert advise on how and what type of Raid system I need to store and quickly access a large music and movie library? At the moment I have it stored on 3 machines

Re: PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 23, 2010, at 1:40 PM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I have a PM G5 2.7 DUAL and I'm installing a Jive 5 unit and a Seritek card to allow 5 2TB drives internally. I need some expert advise on how and what type of Raid system I need to store and quickly access a large music and

Re: PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread Dan
At 1:57 PM -0500 2/23/2010, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 1:40 PM, mailto:carmo...@aol.comcarmo...@aol.com wrote: I have a PM G5 2.7 DUAL and I'm installing a Jive 5 unit and a Seritek card to allow 5 2TB drives internally. I need some expert advise on how and what type of Raid

Re: PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Dan wrote: For Data security at the cost of speed is RAID 5 across 3 disks. There is a parity bit so that if one drive fails, you still can recover the data by replacing the failed drive. Slower than RAID 0, but your data is secure. until the RAID card

Re: PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Dan wrote: For Data security at the cost of speed is RAID 5 across 3 disks. There is a parity bit so that if one drive fails, you still can recover the data by replacing the failed drive. Slower than RAID

Re: PM G5 RAID

2010-02-23 Thread Al boone
you need to have to raid cards and have it set up so that for a primary and secondary sort of thing where if one drops out the other card takes over and you can then replace the failed card. After that you need to resync. It takes fancy software but we used to do it all the time on Risc 6k boxes.