On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:10:06PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > > If I understood RAID 0+1, all it is is a mirrored stripped set. That > would mean I would still be loosing 50% of my disk capacity. RAID 5 > only has a 30% lose of disk capacity. Even better is RAID 0, with 0% > loss of disk capacity.
Better? Meaning that with every disk you add you increase the risk of complete failure. How's that better? > I am not worried too much about redundancy, but I would like to at > least have the ability to save some files if one disk begins to slowly > die. Wait. You don't want RAID at all! What you're talking about is _backups_. Backups are a completely separate issue from RAID. Don't confuse them. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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