Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:11:21 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to recover data from dead hard drive. Message-ID: <BN6PR2001MB173046D735C43B08BC97476D80430@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <4D114C69-A005-492B-B3A4-99A19CDF92E9@fjl.co.uk> References: <59DBA387.4050108@gmail.com> <20171009191435.145c9dd2.freebsd@edvax.de> <72772933-C642-43DB-AFD6-6B5D40EEF39E@fjl.co.uk> <BN6PR2001MB1730D947FADA3A9DC9A370A480490@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <D38D69CE-4771-4255-9F24-8DB27C6ABF97@fjl.co.uk> <43621.128.135.52.6.1508425321.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <4D114C69-A005-492B-B3A4-99A19CDF92E9@fjl.co.uk>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:40:44 +0100, Frank Leonhardt (m) stated: [snip] >I don't get many people calling up to say their hardware RAID is working >fine; only people saying they're broken. Our mileage is probably the same;= I >was ranting about the people who DO loose critical data through bad practi= ce. Seriously, how many people call a doctor to say that they are feeling fine?= I have used many different methods over the years. For the past four I have employed RAID5 with three drives and excellent results. I am soon going to = be getting a new machine up and running and a friend wants me to use RAID 10, also known as RAID 1+0 which involves four drives. Personally, my confidence in hardware RAID far exceeds that of software bas= ed RAID without regards to the OS. Of course, YMMV. --=20 Carmel NOTE: Please do not "CC" me. I am a member of this list.
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