From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 20:36:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500537B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.stade.co.uk ([195.11.9.114]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15epxW-000IQj-0W for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:36:06 +0100 Received: from titus.stade.co.uk (titus [192.168.1.5]) by mailgate.stade.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f863a0E06275 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:36:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1@titus.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.stade.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f863YLp74452 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:34:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:34:21 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010906043421.C73353@titus.stade.co.uk> Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Wontroba , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:00:55PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC Organization: Yes, I need some of that. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:00:55PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > [ It's strange, considering that many "RAID users" are home users. I'm > constantly surprised by the number of hackers setting up "home RAID" > systems (using the "on-motherboard RAID controller", the Promise > controller, or something else like vinum or 3ware). ] Disks are cheap, and capacities constantly expand. Backup devices and media are expensive, wear out, and if they were big enough when you bought them, soon are not, leaving you with the pain of swapping media during backups. Tape stackers etc are expensive. If you decide that what you really want to protect yourself against is disk failure, RAID becomes an attractive option. -- Adrian Wontroba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message