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On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:01:18 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Are you running a RAID? |
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Yes; mdadm RAID-1, with LVM on top, as in the Gentoo how-to: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
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> Are you looking for a little redundancy or a lot of redundancy? |
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I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what benefits |
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would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in particular, |
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what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? |
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> What are your future space & drive bandwidth requirements vs today's |
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> requirements? |
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The same as today's. |
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PS. Please don't send a second e-mail copy to me; I can read the list the same |
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as anyone else. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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