Graywolf, We'll use RAID on servers where we have big files stored and where we want to read the data quickly, something like reading demographics across 8,000,000 census tracks in the USA and doing manipulations with the info. Regards, Bob S.
On 4/22/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The purpose of RAID 1 or 5 is to have redundant copies of the data. In a > properly setup redundant array a failed drive is simply replaced and it > is restored from the other drives. You can actually set up a RAID system > where this is done totally automatically (RAID 5 with a hot spare drive) > but most of us home users will be comfortable with shutting down the > system swapping out the bad drive and then letting it restore itself on > boot up. There is an intermediate system with hot swappable drives but > it tends to be more expensive to set up than the hot spare system these > days. > > -graywolf > > AlexG wrote: > > Presumably so they aren't spinning for nothing, assuming they won't > > power down on thier own. > > > > MTBF for hard disks is reported to be greatly exagerated > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
