Im sorry, I did mean raid1 mirror, not raid0 stripping.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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