Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> writes: > karl shah-jenner wrote: > >>be aware though that RAID can mean striped, mirrored or striped and >>mirrored. Mirrored is fine but it's basically copying to two hard drives >>at once, striped is dangerous as all hell - you lose one drive and that's >>that.. everything's gone >> > > Huh? > > This is not quite right. I frequently replace one drive in a RAID 5 > array with no loss of data to my Customer. Raid 5 is not just striping. It includes redundancy (via parity rather than full mirroring) enough to allow surviving the complete loss of one drive from the array. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
