Performance is a nightmare, but if you have a lot of data it is still
viable. And I have been saved too many times from drive failures. "Oh, drive
failed huh, well good thing it kicked in and rebuilt on the hot spare, I
will order a new one this week and oh look no down time." :)

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:20 -0700, JD Austin wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisa Kachold
> > <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >         Of course for mission critical data, I recommend RAID 5 or
> >         RAID 1+0 at the very least.
> >
> >
> >         AND ALL BACKUPS REQUIRE A RESTORE TEST - laugh!  You all can
> >         appreciate this point?
> >
> >
> > I second the restore test.. we had a wonderful Legato backup system
> > that made backups that couldn't be restored.
> > Never assume it works ;)
> ----
> Somewhere it must be written that the name Legato means horribly complex
> solutions that never really quite work as they are supposed to but damn,
> someone paid a lot of money for the exercise in gymnastics...thanks.
>
> By the way...RAID 5 - for all purposes these days, it's dead. It is
> being put to death by drive densities that keep increasing while error
> rates remain constant. Given the low performance of RAID 5, who cares
> anyway.
>
> Craig
>
>
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