On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This part..maybe your terminology is confused..you say they get more > realiability with 'redundant disk arrays then with RAID'. Just a point of > order, RAID *is* redundant array of independant disks. >
But RAID is a specific technology. Having multiple, redundant drives does not require using RAID. My understanding is that Google doesn't use RAID technology for anything but that one project (Adwords). While for their search indices and Gmail and the like they simply store multiple copies of the data. Then if one fails, the other copies are still there. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
