Other than the case when 2 drives failed, Raid 5 worked for me for many years. If you are using simple mirroring though 2 drives failing will cause the same issue. I now use Raid 6 for a little more redundancy. Always backup your data to other storage (offsite if possible) in-case of disaster.

Gilbert

On 6/21/2012 8:41 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert

On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> > So yeah, no raid is perfect...
> >
> ...
> > -mb
>
> I use software raid strictly on servers, which are headless (of course).
> ...
>
> I don't know why anyone would run SSDs in a raid. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP.

Rather than my guessing, would you mind explaining your reasons?  I'm curious.

> ...
>
> BL, *never* use fakeraid, and avoid raid-5 if possible. Disk space is no
> longer expensive enough to justify using raid-5.

Wow, someone else who agrees with me - IMHO, if its important enough to need raid, don't try to skimp and save a few bucks so you can lose your data!

Rusty 



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