Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability
From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:27:14 -0600
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002251739040.30681-100000@enchanter.real-time.com>


> Only "danger" is if one of your drive goes, you lose all data. So, each
> drive you add on increases the chances of failure exponentially..


Isn't the whole point of raid is to allow redundancy of drives so that if
one goes - you can pull it and add a new drive?  I suppose the difference
between the software solution and hardware solution is that the hardware
solutions is more than likely "hot swappable" - so there is no downtime.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

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