Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-14 Thread J Moore
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:00:59PM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick Holland wrote: J Moore wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:47:48AM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick Holland wrote: Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here... are you advocating that one develop

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
J Moore wrote: Anyway...you HAVE to spend time getting to know whatever RAID solution you are using. Practice, practice, practice!!! Try swapping drives -- what happens if you swap a drive with a larger drive? smaller drive? how does it indicate errors? etc... In short: never trust

DRDB (was: RAID for dummies)

2005-10-13 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-10-11 23:58:27 +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: DRBD is RAID-1, actually (with n-way replication under development last time I checked). I assume that was just a typo. ;-) I just listend to a talk about v8. Seems quite production ready. :-) You can get 3-way replication with DRDB

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-13 Thread J Moore
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:47:48AM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick Holland wrote: Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here... are you advocating that one develop expertise in all areas to become totally self-sufficient? If so, I suppose you are all at once: thoracic surgeon,

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
J Moore wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:47:48AM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick Holland wrote: Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here... are you advocating that one develop expertise in all areas to become totally self-sufficient? If so, I suppose you are all at once:

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-12 Thread J Moore
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:50:29PM -0700, the unit calling itself Raymond Lillard 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. I don't desire to

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-12 Thread J Moore
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:11:03AM -0400, the unit calling itself Nick Holland wrote: There's only one RAID system that I think is anything close to as simple as you desire: ... Accusys ACS-7500 or its competitors. No equity position in any of them. And yes, that's it. :) I'll

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:09:39PM -0500, 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. I don't desire to become an expert on RAID, I don't want

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:09:39 -0500, 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. I don't desire to become an expert on

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
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

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread ed
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:55:30 +1000 Rod.. Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAID 1 (or any RAID really) is NOT a backup. It is a high availability system. High availability does NOT mean never unavailable. Hello again Rod, I've been looking at ways to make a redundant and load balanced SAN.

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been looking at ways to make a redundant and load balanced SAN. As you put it, it's not high reliability, once you get a problem with RAID, or the box that it's attached to, you can consider the data 'unknown'. The best solution that I have seen

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-11 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:07:49PM +0100, ed wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:55:30 +1000 Rod.. Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAID 1 (or any RAID really) is NOT a backup. It is a high availability system. High availability does NOT mean never unavailable. Hello again Rod, I've

RAID for dummies

2005-10-10 Thread J Moore
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. I don't desire to become an expert on RAID, I don't want to spend a lot of money, and I'm confused by what I've read

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-10 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:09:39 -0500, 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. I don't desire to become an expert on RAID, I don't want to spend

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
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. I don't desire to become an expert on RAID, I don't want to spend a lot of money, and I'm confused by