[ML-General] hardware RAID

[WebDawg]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:39 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  The applications are:
> for striping, HD video,
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This is the solution I would focus on first, how much speed do you need?
Are you just reading the data @ X per second to keep up with a stream or
are you editing/writing video.


> for mirroring, I am very very tired of drives failing and losing all my
> work and data.  Yeah, yeah, I don't backup like I should, I know.
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> Raid 5 is not for mirroring.  You need more then two disks.  But you
should be using Raid 5 for redundancy.


> The software raid that Linux uses.
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> Linux has a few different types.

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