Re: Soft-RAID an Promise

[Marc Haber <mh+uugrn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:06:06PM +0200, Werner Holtfreter wrote:
> It is *very* important, that you *only* use one IDE disk per IDE 
> bus. Not only would two disks ruin the performance, but the failure 
> of a disk often guarantees the failure of the bus, and therefore 
> the failure of all disks on that bus. In a fault-tolerant RAID 
> setup (RAID levels 1,4,5), the failure of one disk can be handled, 
> but the failure of two disks (the two disks on the bus that fails 
> due to the failure of the one disk) will render the array unusable. 

Unusable. Von Datenverlust steht da nix.

Zusammengefasst: nimm SATA, viel weniger Aerger. Und nicht immer allen
HOWTOs glauben, die sind meistens von Leuten geschrieben die auch nur
mit Wasser kochen.

Gruesse
Marc

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