On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, for the original question: for a home system, do you really need > the uptime that RAID provides? I suspect not -- in that case, put > your money into backups, not RAID. If it suits your needs, I think a RAID setup is perfectly acceptable. I have a RAID-5 array in my desktop computer at home. I have never had a drive failure, though I have simulated it to practice replacing a drive without loosing any data. For myself, the reasoning was mostly to combine a bunch of drives into one large logical volume, which greatly reduces workflow overhead. That I can suffer a single drive failure and not have to resort to restoring from a backup is simply a nice-to-have. I still backup my important files to an external hard-drive on a semi-regular basis, but there is much less mission-critical data (photos, documents) than stuff that is simply annoying to lose (music and movies). -S -- Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate Space Flight Laboratory University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6 -- 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
