Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

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?

Yes, except in the case of RAID 0, which is what Eric was talking about.
RAID 0 is simply `striping' data across multple spindles, for a
performance gain.

> 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.

It's all about RAID `levels', rather than hardware vs. software. Software
RAID is generally considered a low-end solution.

http://www.baydel.com/tutorial.html


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