dan schrieb: > with 3 drives in a raid5, you can lose 1/3 of the drives and still keep > data but you are 3x more likely to lose a drive. in raid 0, you are 1/2 > as likely to lose a data drive because losing a disk is not losing a > data drive, just a backup. in other words, with raid5 you can only > afford to lose 1-(xDrives-1:xDrives) or 1/3 in a 3 disk array while > raid0 allows you to lose 50% of the drives..
Did you just confuse RAID-1 with RAID-0? Despite the name, RAID-0 is not redundant, and loosing one drive in a RAID-0 array is disastrous for the whole array. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
