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.


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