Re: New PC Build (slightly OT)

["Simon Coates" <ecolume@xxxxxxx>]

RAID 0 just shares the data across multiple disks to speed things up - so
yeah, it's 'AID
RAID 5 is the best compromise, but you lose a disc for parity - but this is
true redundancy.  I'm hoping I never have to find out if it works! :o)

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Hetherington <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 09 October 2001 22:10
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] New PC Build (slightly OT)


> > I reckon that 4 x 100Gb ATA100 drives running on their own
> > channels on an Adaptec 4 channel IDE RAID card (£250ish) should
> > be more than big/fast enough ...
>
> > Have any of you read the software RAID article on Toms
> > Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)? I can recommend it as
> > interesting reading...
>
> Shame it is only RAID 0 though. I never quite worked out where the
> redundancy is in RAID 0 since one failure is failure of the array so
doesn't
> seem redundant at all so outght to be AID :)
>
> Mark.
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