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Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Rob Cermak wrote:RAID 1? I like Gerry's idea of moving from RAID 5 to 6.We had a 750GB disk die. The volume affected went in to degraded mode. We swapped the disk out and the volume regenerated automatically. Took 4.5 hours, but it regenerated. During this 4.5 hour rebuild, two things can happen: (1) you can lose another disk and your whole volume is toast, (2) find out the new disk you swapped in is bad. Anyway, this whole proceedure did not require any downtime. The OS (Mandriva 2007) didn't notice a thing. Granted I/O was a bit slower during the degraded period and rebuild.Still, I can accomplish the same (pretty much) and within budget withRAID 1. If I lose a disk, I can still replace it with no downtime. That's the most important thing I need. And within my budget.
And that is a serious consideration. We have to store in perpetuity, and it gets messy if we start losing data. Been there once, had one helluvatime getting data restored. We lost one disk and initiated the rebuild (automatically) but lost two more drives almost immediately. Unrecoverable. Good news: we had a distributed archive site with the data and we were, over time, able to repopulate the 2 or so TB we had lost. Our database told us what should be recovered and a subsequent audit showed we had recovered everything...
But, go with what meets your needs and fits your budget. If you, like me, are in academia, sometimes meeting budget is more important than a lot of other considerations.
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