software RAID 1 w/3 Drives

[Shawn Badger]

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 at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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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.
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> 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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