Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 16:01:29 -0700 From: Jev <jev@ecad.org> To: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X? Message-ID: <428D1AC9.4020604@ecad.org> In-Reply-To: <428D1816.4000100@toldme.com> References: <428B6F96.1080500@ecad.org> <428D1816.4000100@toldme.com>
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Danny Howard wrote: > Jev wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We have a new box with 4 200GiG IDE disks, we wish to set it up using >> software raid, and I'm aware there are many options, from vimum, gvinum, >> various other geom classes... >> >> What is the best option looking to the future, that is usable for now? >> >> We are looking for data safety over speed. >> > You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. > Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement, > and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of copying data from the > known good disk. Hi danny, thanks for the reply. What do you use for RAID0? I'm aware of geom mirror, and raid3 classes... Cheers, -Jev
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