Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com): > How do you RAID 2 external USB enclosures as a network drive, or are you > talking software raid with both plugged in to a computer?
The latter. With a Sheevaplug, NSLU2, or similar (not to mention more-conventional hardware), doing Linux md RAID1, assuming one can make sure the bootloader works properly from either drive, I consider that an optimal storage redundancy solution. Remirroring after a drive failure does indeed bog down the host a bit, but tolerably, whereas md RAID5 restriping after drive failure exacts a pretty awful performance hit. (And with 2 TB drives as cheap as they are, 50% RAID storage overhead seems absolutely fine to me.) In that usage scenario, the expense of serious hardware RAID seems absurd given that very little benefit. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
