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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.

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