Re: dup vs raid1 in single disk

2017-02-08 Thread Alejandro R. Mosteo
On 07/02/17 23:28, Kai Krakow wrote: To be realistic: I wouldn't trade space usage for duplicate data on an already failing disk, no matter if it's DUP or RAID1. HDD disk space is cheap, and using such a scenario is just waste of performance AND space - no matter what. I don't understand the

Re: dup vs raid1 in single disk

2017-01-21 Thread Alejandro R. Mosteo
Thanks Austin and Roman for the interesting discussion. Alex. On 19/01/17 21:02, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-01-19 13:23, Roman Mamedov wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:39:37 +0100 "Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejan...@mosteo.com> wrote: I was wondering, from a point of vie

Fwd: dup vs raid1 in single disk

2017-01-19 Thread Alejandro R. Mosteo
Hello list, I was wondering, from a point of view of data safety, if there is any difference between using dup or making a raid1 from two partitions in the same disk. This is thinking on having some protection against the typical aging HDD that starts to have bad sectors. On a related note, I