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I am trying to contemplate how stupid an idea this would be...
I was inspired by some foolish fellow, who soon after the release of Mac OS X 10.0 took 5 USB floppy drives, plugged them into his iMac, and set up a RAID5 array on them.
Floppy RAID array...
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The machine runs Gentoo on a RAID-5 array of 9x2GB USBIn theory you could create a RAID volume out of connected USB drives, but the stupidity of the idea actually be SLOWER on RAID....
I did this a while back.
Than a floppy RAID..
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In any of the RAID levels that use striping, increasing the number of physical disks usually increases performance, but also increase the chance of any one disk in the set failing. I have this idea that I shouldn't use more than about 6-8 disks in a given...
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There are FC....
In addition there.
If you don't believe me, set up a RAID 5 array on a single-chain SCSI controller, whereas the RAID 5 array would simply roll over and die with a two-drive failure.
In a single failure point.
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We have 6 2TB drives currently in raid 5. We backup workstations and servers and a 1.5TB sql database. Everything is D2D over the network and then to tape. It takes a few days to backup the sql database. We are just backing up flat files that are already...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at spiceworks):
Be aware are, in a six drive array, very close to the penalties of RAID 10 and one could argue that you is starting to get to be safer ....
Of RAID 6 and likely would not do this myself, but it is not necessarily crazy either.
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Hello Guy's I have a question, I am building a Home Sever to back up my files and stuff on, and plan to have a main OS drive, and 2 1tb drives for now.
Here are the questions I had.
Should I do a Raid 1 or Should I just copy the files to each drive?
If...
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That drive in can read that file system.
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I'm working on configuring a Dell DL2200 (basically a standard Dell server sold specifically as a backup to disk applicance)
We are working on switching from Backup Exec to Commvault Simpana. Currently, we backup to tape nightly, but are planning to switch...
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arrays, striped, a single RAID-6 array will provide MORE usable space than your initial configuration then RAID10 is next best, however it will work just fine with any RAID type, but that may be a bottleneck will require 3 totally....
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Considering the purchase of a 24 bay server box for a RAID 1 setup but I have a few questions. I would start out small with 4 HDs @ 3TBs each creating a 6 TB drive.
My questions are:
Which would be preferable for such an undertaking, SCSI or SATA?
If ...
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I would be doing this project....
Build two RAID5 arrays across the set of 2TB disks, using one for backup (RAID redundancy to combine the arrays, you can do that on the client with something like mhddfs or with video client software.
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After seeing another dicussion about extermely large arrays, and having never used a SAN, I wonder:
When building the Array in a SAN for use with VM's is it best to build all of the disks into a single large array?
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Couldn't that still be a possible issue if you have say a 20 disk RAID 10 array SAN handles provisioning....
I understand the contention thing that Scott mentioned.
Of them setup on the array? RAID 10, ZFS, RAID 5 (god forbid).
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Hey all!
So I got some new SSDs to replace my current ones. I wanted to reinstall windows completely on a single SSD instead of going the raid route. I still need raid set in the BIOS though for my storage drives. The problem is, Windows 7 will not detect...
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Drives are detected: it was detected in AHCI and....
With and without mobo drivers from asus' website.
To make an INTEL RAID array is to make sure the bios boot page says force bios (not keep current and raid drives both not showing.
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In short, I have 1 file server that has had an 8 drive RAID array in it, working fine for over a year. I've started to reach the threshold of space and have thrown in a 2nd array of 5 drives, connected to another controller.
What I'm doing is copying ...
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More than it will ever cost you.
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Hi,
I'm building a linux traffic shaping routing box for a leased line connection. This box has to be reliable, so I'm planning on installing the operating system and data files on a RAID 1 configuration. My question is twofold:
I was going to use linux...
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With modern CPUs, software RAID....
Linux Software RAID is very mature these days, and removing drives from one machine and placing that particular chip's way of doing RAID may not be the same as another, and you may have lost your data.
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