[vox-tech] Raid Question

[jim stockford]

    it seems to me that faulty power supplies have
occasionally been responsible for corrupt drives,
not so much the hardware as the files and filesystems.
    backing up is certainly important, as writing
corrupt data to a RAID system writes corrupt data
throughout.
    I use RAID 1 with the Linux-supplied software
management, works great. I go with RAID 1 all
the time (and sometimes remember to back up).



On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Brian Lavender wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:12:00AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:11:33PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> So, I'm looking at some new hard drives to increase my storage 
>>> capacity
>>> and I'm having trouble deciding if I should raid 1 or not.
>>> Basically my options for the price are 2x250GB Sata hardware raid or 
>>> a
>>> single 400 or 500 GB. It's seems fairly straightforward to setup
>>> hardware raids, and I've done it before with linux are there any 
>>> gotchas
>>> anyone can think of or any disadvantages to what I'm thinking. With 2
>>> drives I'll still have 1 Sata port open on my Mobo for something else
>>> later. For that matter should I worry that much, and just get a 
>>> single
>>> big drive. At this point the basic issue is that my digital 
>>> photography
>>> and digital music are competing for what space I have left and I 
>>> don't
>>> have a backup of either.
>>>
>>
>> Often what kills one drive can kill another. It seems today that 
>> drives
>> rarely fail if they have the proper running conditions. I prefer 
>> storage
>> on another machine or something detached. Here are some options I 
>> would
>> consider.
>>
>> The NSLU2 runs linux and lots of people hack it!
>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/73de/
>>
>> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
>
> Not to mention backing up your GNU/Linux box.
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/BackupYourLinuxBox
>
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> Brian Lavender
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