Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] RAID controllers?
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Mon Aug 18 17:47:43 2008
References: <4cfa589b0808181442l43a48cf9x5099715b065362b5@mail.gmail.com> <200808182227.AVU31589@rg5.comporium.net> <B241372DA965DBC5BED4C064@scarborough.isc.org> <8EE805FD-1F72-43CE-86DA-DD88002AE945@embarqmail.com> <20080818235942.GK5239@jbm.org>
 
>  No complaints
> about RAID-5 performance, even with an array using only three spindles.
> (I had a superstitious fear, from years of experience with other
> hardware, of booting from a volume within a RAID array, and stuck in a
> Raptor as a boot device.  I might revisit that decision.)

I did exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reasons, except I used a 
Barracuda. Underwater raptor, I suppose.
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