On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, J Moore wrote: > I want to set up an OBSD box as a file server for some Windoze boxes. I > think a RAID 1 setup will provide sufficient reliability - and it > appears to be the cheapest way to go. > Yep, do it all the time.
> One of the disks craps out... an alarm goes off... I walk in with a new > drive, and replace the failed one (hot-swap?)... beeping stops... no > data is lost, system "heals" itself by taking care of the new drive... > years pass, and life is good. > If you want good reliability & minimum cost, we use RaidFrame all the time. Only two problems with your scenario: 1) The parity rebuild times can get pretty long (30+ minutes); 2) Your 'alarm' would be the nightly email saying that the drive set did not pass parity check (i.e. not realtime). > Is this feasible - can I remain ignorant of the RAID details and jargon, > and still benefit from it? > If you don't want to use s/w raid, get a BIOS-level like the AccuSys already mentioned. Lee