Re: Raid5 Blues

[aashram <groups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark your right. I was running linux with a few drives for 3 years no
problems. Until the powersupply went on the external fwire box.
Since this raid set up it been non stop hassle. I am now going back to the
start and figuring out what I need at bare minimum in storage requirements
and this time taking into consideration MAINTENANCE. I am never to doing
what I should be doing cause I am too busing fixing something else. Home
mailservers and filesevers - with hard drives getting lower in price before
you know you it you have filled 1.5tb whereas a few years ago that would
have been something that was out of scope.

If there is any raid experts or someone more knowledgable than me :-) that
can give me a few suggestions on how to get my raid back that would be
really appreciated



On 2/3/07 12:00, "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> No idea but from the experiences people on here have had with RAID
(and
>> hardware RAID controllers in particular) it seems that running
RAID (other
>> than basic mirroring of "critical" data) is turning out
to often be more
>> trouble than it's worth!
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> Exactly!
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> There have been several horror stories on this list over the years
that
> have steered me clear of RAID at home.  Better to lose one drive than
the
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