[plug] ext3

[Craig Foster]

Why, oh, why mention IDE with RAID?

SCSI has scatter-gather and command queuing, the quality is generally
higher, and the drives faster.
Software RAID doesn't add anything unless you are running a system that
must have speed at all cost - like music, where the drive gets wiped after
each session or track (actually the striping described isn't RAID, since R
means Redundant..)
And can anyone here vouch for an enterprise quality IDE RAID controller?
Except for testing or those with LOTS of little drives, *no-one should use
IDE with RAID*.

1. Use better quality hard drives (YGWYPF)
2. Backup, backup, backup.

Urrgh!

exit(0);

Craig Foster

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Nold [mailto:markn at enspace.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 10:54 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] ext3
>
>
>
>
> Whilst an off site backup is good, i can't not recommend
> RAID for any system
> of any importance (from your MP3 collection to corporate data)
>
> I have lost several IDE hard disks in the last year and i
> really praise the
> boxes with RAID which i would have hardly noticed someting
> was wrong. (Oh
> and make sure if you have two disk they are on different
> controllers). These
> disk were from 3 months old to three years.
>
> Hard disks fail. Hard disks fail days, months weeks after
> you backup. Hard
> disks fail at the wrong time.
>
> Use RAID, be happy.
>
>
>
>
> The computer is your friend.
>
> Right-U-Are 5
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David White [mailto:tadewhite at optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 9:43 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] ext3
>
>
> I now have a raid system for joining. it works better for me.
>
> Tim
> At 22:58 06/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday 06 March 2002 21:29, David White wrote:
> > > >>also what is RAID?
> > > >
> > > >raid is several things, it involves linking up several
> hard drives to
> > work
> > > >as one
> > > >as far as i know it can either mirror all the data
> accross hard drives
> > for
> > > >backup or combine all hard drives to create one really
> big drive
> > > >
> > > >there are hardware and software based RAID solutions
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >this is just basic...
> > > How do i change to raid?
> >
> >Unless you want high reliability it's probably not worth
> the bother. I had
> a
> >raid system for a while (RAID-1, aka mirroring).  It was
> all fun and games
> >but the novelty wore off after a while. My recommendation
> is to keep good
> >off-site backups instead.
> >
> >If you want to join two drives the best thing to do is
> just mount different
> >directories on different drives. This has some draw backs
> but that's what I
> >recommend.
> >
> >Anthony
>
>
>
>
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