On Thursday 16 September 2010 08:14:53 T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 > partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? > > By "practical" I meant, > > - I would assume less than 0.000001% people would do that so I can't find > any documents. > > - Having 2 partitions might not give me much advantage in safety, so the > pay off is pity comparing to the hoops that I need to jump through. > > As you can see, I'm still "scared" about this "complicated" RAID thing. > > Any comments or inputs?
One aspect of raid is for drive failure protection, not partition protection. IMHO., the more spindles the better , even without using raid. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009161357.38655.gomadtr...@gci.net
