[Gllug] Hardware RAID On-Disc Format

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 15 Mar Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 12:44, Doug Winter wrote:
> > I had, perhaps naively, assumed that the disk format on the individual
> > drives was going to be whatever the OS thought it was.  Anyone know
> > anything about this?  I'm quite tempted to test it, because I'd hate to
> > be left up the proverbial by a vendor going bust.
> 
> Your friend is largely correct.  Using RAID doesn't mitigate the need
> for a regular, tested backup regime.

Well absolutely, nothing ever mitigates the need for backups.  

My point being, I suppose, that in the case of a card failure, I'd
rather be able to unplug a disk from the card and plug it into something
else and it work.  Recovering from backups can be a slow and laborious
process.

So these disks really might have data written in an undocumented
proprietary format on them?

doug.

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