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Subject: Re: ccd setup for striping
In-Reply-To: <199610180032.SAA04608@glacier.cold.org> from Brandon Gillespie at "Oct 17, 96 06:32:30 pm"
To: brandon@glacier.cold.org (Brandon Gillespie)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
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> > fyi, software RAID inevitably slows down your newsserver vs. simply using
> > multiple disks with different partitions.
> 
> They really are not relative, the idea behind doing a RAID drive is to get
> stability from redundancy (not more disk space)--if one drive cooks you
> still have 5 (or however many) other drives still functional.  Using
> multiple disks with different partitions would give you more disk space,
> but would not give you any more stability.

Or flexibility for the matter... Say you partition 2GB for / and 4GB for
/alt... On day one, you receive 1GB in / and 3 GB in /alt, in day 2 you
receive 3 GB in / and 2 GB in /alt, you screwed..  Obviously this is
not a 'realistic' example, but the point it makes is very realistic.  It's
much easier to accomadate the data when it all sits on 'one' drive...

	-- Rob
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