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[NMLUG] RAID0 vs RAID1
With RAID1, you'll, effectively have one 160 GB drive spinning on two,
separate spindles. If one drive dies on you, you lose everything.
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Tim Emerick wrote:
> I'm building a replacement samba server. The motherboard has a builtin
> Promise RAID controller which I intend to use with 2 80gig ATA100 EIDE HD's.
> My choices from the controller are RAID0 (mirroring?) or RAID1 (striping?).
>
> Applications are fairly basic with an equal amount of both reads and writes.
> I understand that if my application was mostly read-only then mirroring would
> be better but since I'll be doing both I'm leaning towards striping for
> performance reasons.
>
> Since the RAID controller is hardware I'm assuming that I don't have to do
> anything special with Linux. Linux will see the raid array as a single
> drive.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tim Emerick
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