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> It has survived several crashes/power outages. For my RAID5 (four |
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> 500gb drives) it took about 90 minutes for the raid to verify after |
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> such incidents. I know there are benefits to hardware RAID but for low |
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> cost/low importance (it's my home PC) the software RAID is good enough |
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> for me. |
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Software raid is perfect for a situation like this, also, the choice |
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for raid5 (or raid6) is good because while it provides redundance |
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(security when a drive fails) it also supports growing (you can make |
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the array bigger by adding drives), as long as the file system on it |
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supports growing. |
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I'm not sure how 'growing' support is handled in hardware raid and i'm |
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ready to believe it is inexistant in fakeraid... but I'm saying so |
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without knowing... |
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Simon |
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