Michael Bahr
jedi at charm.net
Tue Jul 20 11:08:53 CDT 2010
John, for your media collections you really should go only Raid 1. Yeah if you lose the HD you can re-do everything but who has the time? Besides 2TB HD's are ~<$150 or so. How much is your time worth? Mike... > I am about to build an UnRaid for my massive video / music collection. I > currently have no > protection on that so if I lose a disk I lose all of that. With Unraid I > would have "raid 5 like" > storage so that in the event of single drive failure I can still recover. > If I do lose it I just > re-rip. Not the end of the world but not something I want to do. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Michael Bahr wrote: >> And did you read the "Update: NetApp has responded. " >> >> RAID 5 today verges on professional malpractice >> >> Mike... >> >> >>> http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/ >>> >>> I had seen this before but it is an interesting read. >>> >>> -- >>> John W. Colby >>> www.ColbyConsulting.com >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >