So you are saying that the data is replicated 3 times to each drive. Drives are cheap, but that seems to be a waste to me.
Just my 2 cents thought.
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Shawn Badger wrote:
> The 3 drives as a Raid is probably set up to have on as a hot spare. A
> four drive Raid 1 is not really a Raid 1 it is either a Raid 01 or more
> likely a Raid 10. In a Raid 01 you stripe a pair of drives and then
> mirror the striped drives. The more common configuration is to create
> two mirror sets and then stripe them. This gives you fault tolerance
> with high though put.
No, It's four mirrored drives. if the boot drive fails. The other
drives have lilo in the mbr so they will boot from the mirrored boot
partition--the same on every drive.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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