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[John Andersen]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 00:02, Scott Couston - Registration Account wrote:
> Using RAID 1 is a good idea, however you need to be comfortable in
> creating it. If you are using SuSe the Yast partition tool will make
> life a lot easier, however there is much to take into account
> in mirroring a partition that needs to be researched so that when the
> first HDD fails you will not have too much trouble utilising its mirror.
> RAID 1 is easy to create, however in the event you need to use the
> mirror partition solely comes the time for knowing exactly what to do.

No, Scott, that is not much of a problem.  Even using software
raid, if one drive dies, the raid just fails the drive, and boots it out
and continues to run on the one remaining drive.

Its so smooth, you run the risk of missing the failure entirely.

When you add the new replacement drive, the raid just rebuilds
the array automatically.

I don't think any of the hardware raid controllers offer much
unless you are talking big enterprise level servers.  
Software raid under linux is so reliable, and servers are 
usually so un-loaded (cpu utilization hovering around 3%)
that the cost for the controller is better spent on ram.


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