I have never liked raid 5 but can still see its use. And while you are 100% correct I have the statement that raid is not a back up it is a good feature for performance needs and overall uptime so you can keep running in case of single disk failure. Which I have dealt with.
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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
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> I use software raid strictly on servers, which are headless (of course).
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> 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.
> ...
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> 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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