Add RAID to 4 drives better. I have 5-20gb hdds and have RAID on the last 4. You cant add RAID to the hdd you have the OS installed. I have 1,5. Good to have Parity especially with the electrical systems here in Hawaii where the average lifespan of a P/S is 1 1/2 years. Too much flux in the voltage.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux) > What would be the point of doing a RAID with 1 drive :) You get 0 > redundency. > > Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Hattemer > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux) > > > In litteral terms, you can do software raid on linux with 1 HD and two > partitions. However, it probably hurts performance, rather than > improving > it. The multiple heads on a hard drive all line up vertically and scan > what's called a cyllinder (multiple sectors stacked on top of each > other). > They cannot read two partitions at the same time. You could test out > software raid with two partitions, but I don't think you'd be too happy > with > it. You can probably get RAID 1 going with a very slight advantage. It > won't save you in case your drive fails entirely, but if you start to > get > bad sectors or filesystem errors, at least your HD is backed up on > another > partition. > > -Eric Hattemer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:54 PM > Subject: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux) > > > > <Not really :)> > > > > Just thought that with the current advancement of multiple-head HDs, > things might have changed. > > But I suppose if someone can develop a new type of BIOS? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau