[Nottingham] Disks RAID (Was: Next Meeting & CFC & general)

[Martin]

Jon Masters wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> 
> | I've recently had two disk crashes on various systems. One disk could be
[...]
> 
> For general interest then, storage is now so cheap that we're sticking
> together another general purpose AMD64 box with 0.5TB usable RAID5 and
> two hotspare swappable disks for well under 1K. It's probably worth a
> talk on RAID and LVM2 at some point.

YES!

Also, how robust RAID is for various failures on IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, 
other...?

(I've had one failing drive on an IDE interface knock out the other 
drive on a second channel(!) on a Promise raid 'controller'... Phah! (:-((


Further talk ideas welcomed...

(:-))
Martin

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