[Gllug] Recommendations for servers

[Rich Walker]

On 2010-11-24 19:40, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Wed, November 24, 2010 17:12, Iain Gray wrote:
>>  * Dual (raid 5) disk (can be sw raid)
> 
> You can't do useful RAID5 on two disks.

On disk 0, store the data. On disk 1, store the parity of the data.
Which happens to be the data.

Looks just like RAID-1 but you should be able to grow it into 3 disks later?

(I didn't say it was a *good* idea)

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