Hi Bill, On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:52:46 -0600, William Robb wrote:
>Could some kind soul please explain in really small words and easy to >understand concepts just exactly what this is? It means all your data is spread over the two disks, in rather small lumps called 'stripes'. It MAY speed up disk-read and write a bit, at the expense of reliablilty. >The array is 2 500gb drives that show as a single 1tb drive. Exactly, and so you now have twice the chance of a disk crash taking that whole 1Gb down (and very hard to recover). I single 1Gb disk would be more reliable ... Raid-0 is suited for speed freaks, that run gaming machines, without anything of real value on there :-) I'dd ask your support person to change it to Raid-1, which is a bit slower, half the effective size but a WHOLE lot more reliable. One disk can crash with any data-loss, everything is stored twice. (Raid-1 is also called mirroring). Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
