Remember there are like 7-8 types of RAIDs these days. I really can't remember now what the OP eventually decided on.
The RAID controller itself adds a whole separate layer of complexity to controlling a disk, regardless if it's hard or soft. Don't forget - while RAIDs are rebuilding, they can be subject to total data loss if a second drive fails. Not so unlikely if it's age or a power surge that took out the first one. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I don't think this is right. Hardware RAID does crc on the data, > so corruption is almost impossible, the RAID would drop the bad drive off if > it started returning errors. Of course this is moo as joey says if he is > doing soft RAID. So the question is...hard or soft? > > Mike > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >So would you recommend this pair of hard drives be setup as a RAID? Or >> >at least 2 independent hard drives? I sort of like the idea of keeping >> >one drive (or one pair of drives) off site. >> >> You want the two drives decoupled. RAID would immediately copy an error >> from one drive to the other -- not what you want. I rotate three drives, >> always keeping one off site. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
