Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>]

What is the use of striping?  Does it just concatenate all the disks
together to make them look like one big disk?  If so, what is a real world
use for that?

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott" <pope@ossuary.net>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability


> 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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