[Cialug] sata raid

[dave at 58ghz.net]

You've got a valid point. At this point in time,
drive failure seems to be the issue. I'm thinking
that hardware raid 1, combined with 2x daily data
backups and a weekly drive image onto a external
drive should minimize my downtime in the event of a
catastrophe. 



------- Original Message -------
>From    : Daniel A.
Ramaley[mailto:daniel.ramaley at drake.edu]
Sent    : 6/12/2007 9:02:27 AM
To      : cialug at cialug.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: Re: [Cialug] sata raid

 On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:39, dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
>I also considered the software raid. It would be
>suited to my needs, but I felt that recovery from a
>drive failure would be faster and easier with a
>hardware solution.

With hardware RAID it may be easier to recover from
drive failure, but 
how easy is it to recover from a controller failure?
If recovery is 
difficult, does it matter (i.e., how probable is a
controller failure 
versus drive failures)?

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