software RAID 1 w/3 Drives

[Dan Lund]

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 at pcxperience.com 
> <mailto: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.
>
>     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.
>
>     - --
>     JT Morée
>     PC Xperience, Inc.
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