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

Plain mirror is RAID 1, isn't it?

And you can always go to SATA these days, up to 8 drives on a PCI card -
given the right PCI interface - RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD.

John


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> DWUTKA at marlow.com
> Sent: 26 March 2004 22:32
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> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Hard Drives, RAID, backup setup
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> 
> 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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> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:13 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> 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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