[sclug] RAID and/or LVM for ganging together HDDs to expand capacity?

John Stumbles john at stumbles.org.uk
Fri Oct 19 07:54:52 UTC 2007


Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:

> The MTBF is always a good one.  The more bits you have the more there is
> to go wrong.   Is it safer to fly a single engined plane?  You have
> twice the chance of an engine failure on a twin.  YMMV.

Ah but you can get round that by turning of one of the engines, thus 
reducing the probability of a running engine failing by 50% ;-)

-- 
John Stumbles



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