[AccessD] OT: Hard Drives, RAID, backup setup

If you can, put in 3 SCSI drives, and set the raid up on those.  I am
running a RAID 5 on 2 SCSI's and an IDE.  No real issues, until I wiped out
my OS (whoops).  Long story.

However, if you are just looking for reliability, and don't want to go scsi,
I would go with plain mirrors (RAID 0).  The problem with a RAID 5 on IDE,
is that you only have 2 IDE channels, so even though you can put 4 IDE hard
drives in a machine, it's really to shared couples, so mirroring with a
parity (RAID 5) across three of them is going to be a real performance
degradation.  However, mirroring between two drives, on different channels,
will work just fine.

Drew

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Subject: [AccessD] OT: Hard Drives, RAID, backup setup


I have had a massive hardware failure (50 gigs gone bad, only 75% backed
up), and am thinking about moving to a RAID setup. 
Anyone have any specific recommendations on setup? I have a Win 2k
server, but don't use a domain; there are 4 of us in my house on the
LAN, but I'm ususally logged in on a few devices - let's call it 10
users max; just use the lan as p2p, with file sharing.  Dedicate a
machine to this task? Let everyone save to C:\, automate back-ups
overnight? Or point everyone's  MyDocuments to a network share, and
bakup that ? On and on ...

Any preferred hardware brands? it was a Maxtor that failed - nervously
runnign off another one now?


Tia4aa
(thanks in advance for any adivce)
Steve


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