From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 20:33:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6DD16A469 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:33:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA3613C457 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so333860fka for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=4E7m6lhh+FhZ8JzTa8veDlgJuBVSA6iZ3qccSqrtOuw=; b=bUAnCmmIYpkGUB036jSdvR82aItGcYet1/ETMyClcXudFkL5D7WCg5/4UZvAa05jEaZOqHWts7ViLOfwq5RY9hRRiobfwR2gt9jbbZJXUSwMZibz4P9sn4U44PSAFo/V0kS5mD0Ulsf62rxo3EsOGeiq2uOKdQGJzd4KTpL38+k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jzqdJ0jPkIs5dAiTaAfKdxzpoYHCoP3v+iQuDnyMwamEL4cjBs8+vulW7ah8gqzWLaqwioL/kcWlIGTU6Tgts5n+9uDM4B7zLBi66g+Bw60a4RhqWgqdInnYkEevPqCe1tyROVrhgpg8g7asUnwh3G6bRoS0ro7LVxNm5B9Scpc= Received: by 10.82.156.12 with SMTP id d12mr2377382bue.1192048423578; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.186.11 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:43 -0700 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: nodje In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:33:45 -0000 Did you know that most "oh my god" RAID failures happen during the reconstruction of a failed drive? .Especially on SATA as the non-recoverable-bit-error math is so much easier to run into. I think..that on a 500G drive, there are enough bits to read/write that mathematically you could run into a double-drive failure every time you have to recover. Although, statistically it wouldnt happen every time. No raid solves any backup problem. > I've been using those Intel RAID with Windows for a couple of years now and > it really helped solve my backup problem. > I think this is simply great, no worries of data loss anymore (at least > coming from hardware failure). > > -nodje > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >