Re: Boot from RAID5 or separate HDD?

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is in addition to the hot standby, essentially it becomes the new
hot standby while you wait for the new replacement disk to turn up.

Many raid arrays use the same make/model of disks and they're operating
in the same environment - the school of thought goes that if one disk
fails the others are likely to also fail too.


Christopher Purves wrote:
> Get a raid card that supports hot standby - even better!
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>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> From: dajdavies@xxxxxxx
>> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:20:34 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Boot from RAID5 or separate HDD?
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>> Other thing I've seen people do is keep another spare drive - so
any
>> failed drives can be replaced quickly, rather than having to wait
for
>> the courier to deliver one.
>> Geoff H wrote:
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>>> Another piece of advice I was given a while back was to
purchase two RAID cards
>>> of the same make. Keep one in storage as an insurance policy.
>>> This way, if the controller dies, you have a spare one to be
able
>>> to recover the array and retrieve the data.
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