Huh!? RAID 0 is mirroring isn't it?? If one drive fails, you still have the other one with the mirrored data to recover from? You're thinking of RAID 1. --andrew andrew henry +46 (0)40-251144 > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Ryan Wagoner > Sent: 13 November 2008 13:36 > To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Tips for good hard drives for a home server > > Actually a single drive is more reliable than 2 drives in RAID 0. If > either drive fails all your data is gone. RAID 0 is intended for > performance only. Personally I would buy the non enterprise class > drives and get 3 for the price of 2 and do RAID 5. > > Just a thought. > > Ryan > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Henry, Andrew <andrew.henry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Any reason you are using RAID 0 for your server? Normally when I think of a server reliability > comes to mind and RAID 0 doesn't offer any. > >> I'm assumming you make nightly or weekly backups? > > > > > > Im using RAID 0 because I am not willing to shell out for several drives. 2 at once is my > breaking point. This is only a *home* server, and in my opinion, I think im already being way > more conscious of reliability by choosing RAID 0 compared to average Joe that goes for a > Windows Home Server with a single hard drive > > > > I do not currently have backups of my RAID 0 array: it is being used *for* my backup sets. My > data is stored on my desktop PC at the moment and im doing incremental tar backups to my RAID > 0 disk. There are other data on the array that I do not have on my desktop, but I have original > media for these (music/movie library) and loss of this would be more inconvenience of having to > rip the discs to hard drive again (very time consuming). > > > > > >> i recently bought the 2 of the WD RE3 750GB and using them with linux > >> raid level 1. time will only tell how these hard drives hold up. but > >> aside from the Velociraptos (which only go up to 300GB) these seem to > >> be top quality in their line. > > > > I've looked at the specs of the WD RE3, the Seagate ES.2, the Hitachi Ultrastar and Samsung > Spinpoint F1, and the RE3 does seem to have the edge. It is double the cost of the drive I was > considering but thanks to all the tips I received, I think I will go with the RE3. > > > > One thing im not sure of: Is load/unload cycle equivalent to start/stop count? WD has load > cycle of 300.000 but Hitach/Samsung only 50.000 for 'start/stop count'. > > > > --andrew > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
