Operation Delta 3

hi

I once experimented with RAID, and have decided to not use it with only two drives.
a secure and fast RAID on these highpoint chips (promise use them too) would need FOUR identical model drives.
this way, one can have the speed of reading off two drives, and the security of the mirror drives.

without mirrorred drives, the risk of losing all data from BOTH drives is too great, IMHO.

(in other words, with only two drives in the RAID setup, and the two drives set up as a striped raid for speed...rather than mirrored for security, the risk is very real. You see, only one drive has to fail and one loses everything on both.

besides, the drives are blindingly fast on this controller in a NON-RAID setup, so I saw no real reason to stick to RAID.
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Kind regards, Jaak

[This message has been edited by jtdoom (edited 09-08-2001).]

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