Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have never had RAID itself die on my server, but have had disks in the array fail. The RAID just keeps on running. I always have an identical spare as part of the array. The RAID just rebuilds itself with the spare and all the data is accessible even during the rebuild. Then I send in the bad drive under warranty or buy a new one which becomes the new spare drive. RAID has "served" me extremely well over the last five years of absolutely no data loss. Did your RAID card fail? Did you use RAID0 where one drive failing will indeed kill the whole RAID? I would hate for people to get a bad impression of the real value of redundant storage. RAID5 only uses one extra disk, so my four 500gb drives give me 1.5TB storage and the fifth one is just there like a spare tire. The RocketRaid controller I use will eventually allow up to eight SATA drives. Go with RAID Tina! With just you as the user, the extra speed you get with RAID mirrored drives is not important. RAID5 is a bit slower but works great. Only use external drives for backup. P.S. -- I just read all the transport issues with your drives, TIna, but the above still generally applies for safe data storage. Gary Todoroff At 01:12 PM 7/31/2009, you wrote: >No, RAID is not a backup solution. It doesn't fail less. In fact, if a >RAID dies, you are in a much worse position. How do I know? Because >RAID died on me :-( > > >On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Nathan Wajsman<photo at frozenlight.eu> >wrote: > > Tina, you need some kind of RAID solution. Discs are cheap these days, > > your > > time is more valuable. > > > > >-- >// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com