[nmglug] Raid Help

[Tim Emerick]

I've never failed it on purpose.  The reason I mirrored and didn't stripe
these two disks is because I hate doing backups.  The mirror solution seemed
like a nice middle ground to doing tape backups every night.

Tim

--- Jason Davis <mohadib at openactive.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 19:19 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:46 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > > After talking with some folks I've come to the conclusion that I'm
> using the
> > > wrong level of raid.  I thought that by having an off-the-shelf ATA/133
> RAID
> > > controller (SiL) I was using hardware RAID.  Turns out that it's
> software
> > > raid.  I had set it up to do mirroring (RAID1).  Nice
> reads......horrible
> > > writes, especially for some of the database apps.
> > > 
> > > After checking out this site ( http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html ) it
> would seem
> > > that I need to be using RAID10 for the database application.
> > > 
> > > I apologize for not specifying the correct information initially.  What
> I was
> > > hoping for was that someone would prompt me with questions that I
> didn't know
> > > needed to be asked.
> > > 
> 
> 
> also , I wonder , have you ever failed your array and see if you can
> rebuild it , or at least get the important info off?
> 
> jd
> 
> 
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