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On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 08:48 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > The server is going to the co-lo which is 4-5 hours away and normally I'd > not think twice about using 2 drives per server running in RAID-1 (mirror) > mode, but 2 servers gives us 2 drives... > I would tend to agree with the others about this, and use two mirrored (RAID 1) disks. As already mentioned, synchronising a mirrored disk, and still being online, is much more preferable than rebuilding the server. The sysadmin and the users are happy. I do that with all our physical servers (bar one). (Having said that we are now very much moving to virtual servers with network storage. Which I am told is mirrored...:-) ) John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html