[Gllug] IDE RAID

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 11 Jun Tethys wrote:
> But what do you do when it goes wrong. Software RAID doesn't support
> hot swapping a failed drive. I'm not even sure if hardware RAID yet
> manages to do this reliably for IDE. It's commonplace for SCSI RAID
> arrays, though.

A lot of the time you don't need hotswap though - often the crucial
thing is not to lose data, but you can live with 30 mins downtime while
you down the box to swap in a new drive.

Personally I either use software raid with cheap IDE, and mirror
everything, or top-end SCSI raid with really good drives (and then often
mirror everything :).  Anything in between just seems like a poor
tradeoff.

d.

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