jimdibb Wrote: > > For R5 vs. R1, R5 is cheaper and the real reliability is only slightly > worse > than mirrors (gets worse with wider Raid groups, but also gets > cheaper). R1 > needs back-ups just as much as R5 does. > In the general case I'll agree that R1 needs backups as much as R5. In the case of a music library the chance of a write corruption that propogates across the mirrors is pretty low since almost all access is read only. In this case I think R1 is pretty close functionally to a backup. But as you said, with only a slight reliability advantage and a cost disadvantage compared to R5 - which is why I'm using R5 in the first place.
I guess I'll just keep on with my R5 array and my "back-up" the physical media that I've ripped. -- BillC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BillC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22379 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
