Re: OT Raid Setup for MP3 Server

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting paul_watkin (paul_watkin@xxxxxxx):

> I want to create a mirrored copy of all of my MP3's, I propose to 
> have the following drives
> 
> Drive0 120Gig
> Drive1 120Gig
> 
> Drive2 120Gig
> Drive3 120gig
> 
> Drive4 20Gig
> 
> Drives 0+1 will become a pairing to create one 240Gig drive as will
> drives 2+3, with the second pairing being a mirror of the first, I
> think this is theoretically possible but not sure.

It's certainly possibly in theory, but given that an mp3 partition is
likely to have a high proportion of reads and few writes, why not go
for RAID5 and have 360GB of usable disk?

James


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