That is why it is nice to have the mirror and the data replicated to another
disk. But what are the chances of loosing 3 disk on the same system within
such a short time frame that you would not be able to replace a single disk
that failed? The only time I have ever heard of loosing more than one disk
in a day has been due to some type of power surge that usually fried the
server has well.
On 7/24/07, Dan Lund <
situationalawareness@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's only a waste until you lose disks.....
> Then you thank your lucky stars you have it.
>
> Shawn Badger wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > On 7/23/07, * JT Moree* <moreejt@pcxperience.com
> > <mailto:moreejt@pcxperience.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > > 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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> > PC Xperience, Inc.
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