[Cialug] sata raid

Thomas Kula kula at tproa.net
Tue Jun 12 10:08:39 CDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:07AM -0500, dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
> 
> You've got a valid point. At this point in time,
> drive failure seems to be the issue. I'm thinking
> that hardware raid 1, combined with 2x daily data
> backups and a weekly drive image onto a external
> drive should minimize my downtime in the event of a
> catastrophe. 
> 

At this point I do have to chime up and say that software
rarely catches on fire:

 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tkula/bfs41-raid/

Not that this adds anything to the discussion. But I
do like those pictures.


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