Re: [TCLUG:14085] RAID 0 reliability

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.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?  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.
>

Raid0 just stripes all the drives together into one large disk, for
optimal performance. Other levels of raid add parity disks. 

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nate carlson
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