+----[ Adrian Wontroba ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dijo sobre "Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was:
+RAID5)":
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| Disks are cheap, and capacities constantly expand.
Correction: IDE disks are cheap.
| Backup devices and media are expensive, wear out, and if they were big
| enough when you bought them, soon are not, leaving you with the pain of
| swapping media during backups. Tape stackers etc are expensive.
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| If you decide that what you really want to protect yourself against is
| disk failure, RAID becomes an attractive option.
As always, YMMV, but if you also want to protect from other things,
then having an external backup (tape, CD, removable hard disk) is
something that can save you _lots_ of trouble.
Just imagine your machine compromised and having to reinstall
everything from scratch ... a mirroring RAID would be of no use.
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| Adrian Wontroba
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