From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 9:46:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A2837B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f48GkIx16552; Tue, 8 May 2001 12:46:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105081646.f48GkIx16552@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re[2]: Raid In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 18:21:02 +0200." <1301044815765.20010508182102@buz.ch> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:46:18 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Which is why RAID 1 is superior, IMHO. Drives are bloody cheap today. > Your data probably not (else you wouldn't be using RAID in the first > place) so make it use the best. my understanding is that you can have a hot standby on RAID 5, so that if a disk fails, it is replaced with the standby, leaving you protected whileyou replace the offending drive. But don't hold me to this; I can't back it up (but we want to set up our new server like this). hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message