"nntp.dragonflybsd.org" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:496b8121$0$881$415eb...@crater_reader.dragonflybsd.org...
Hi,
I'm curious if RAID 1 (mirroring) really helps to protect data loss. Of
course if a whole disk "dies", RAID 1 has the advantage that
I have an identical copy. But what happens if only a sector of one disk
contains bad data. How can the RAID controller decide which is the
correct sector? Or would the disk detect such a case and return an error?
IMHO RAID provides redundancy and higher data availability while HAMMER
mirroring
provides data safety by by backups. Having a non-0 RAID array is not equal
to data
safety IMHO. Only backups can provide that.
Just my very own 0.02 though.
