Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

[Scott <pope@ossuary.net>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> 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.

     If he were using raid 1,3,4, or 5 then yes, it would
provide redundancy.  However he was talking about using raid
0 which only provides disk striping.

Scott
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