RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Adrian Hall
RAID is a method of spreading your data across disks.It can vary from simply treating all of your disks as one large disk (and providing no redundancy for your data) to what's known as striping where your data is written to multiple disks in a way that means if one of the disks fails, the syst

RE: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Adrian Hall
Hi All,Here in the UK, cyclists are treated the same as cars, trucks etc on the road and are subject to the same laws.This means they have to ride with the flow of traffic, stop at red lights, give way to pedestrians etc.Mind you, the roads are so dangerous for cyclists most just use the paths (