From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 6 7:34:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lila.inti.gov.ar (lila.inti.gov.ar [200.10.161.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF3637B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nav.inti.gov.ar ([200.10.161.45]) by lila.inti.gov.ar with smtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 15f0Ee-0003Ii-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:34:28 -0300 Received: from iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar ([200.3.113.15]) by NAV.inti.gov.ar (NAVGW 2.5.1.12) with SMTP id M2001090611384501960 ; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:38:45 -0300 Received: (from fernan@localhost) by iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f86EYRD02733; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:34:27 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fernan) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:34:27 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero To: Adrian Wontroba Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) Message-ID: <20010906113427.A2088@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20010906043421.C73353@titus.stade.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906043421.C73353@titus.stade.co.uk>; from aw1@stade.co.uk on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:34:21AM +0100 X-PGP-Key: http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/pubkey.asc 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 +----[ Adrian Wontroba (aw1@stade.co.uk) dijo sobre "Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5)": | | Disks are cheap, and capacities constantly expand. Correction: IDE disks are cheap. | 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. As always, YMMV, but if you also want to protect from other things, then having an external backup (tape, CD, removable hard disk) is something that can save you _lots_ of trouble. Just imagine your machine compromised and having to reinstall everything from scratch ... a mirroring RAID would be of no use. | -- | Adrian Wontroba | +----] -- | F e r n a n A g u e r o | B i o i n f o r m a t i c s | | fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar | genoma.unsam.edu.ar | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message