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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 04:34:21 +0100
From:      Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5)
Message-ID:  <20010906043421.C73353@titus.stade.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:00:55PM -0700
References:  <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com>

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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

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