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Re: [LUG] File Server

 

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, David Brook wrote:
>
>> If you are going raid, 2 discs or more is IMHO practically a must - the
>> advantage  of using mirrored discs (Raid 1) is obvious - thus 2 x 250
>> SATA
>> far preferable to 1 x 500 as there is immediately 1 backup in existence
>> and
>> online for when a disc chews up.
>
> There's no practially about it, for any raid configuration you need a
> minimum of two disks, otherwise it's not raid!
>
> Alex.

How about software raid over 2 partitions on the save physical disk..



ok, you can stop shaking now...


seriously, I was joking...


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