Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Adrian Hall wrote: I think with three disks, the best option for using RAID is what's known as RAID 5 - this will make your three physical disks look like a single 'logical' disk. For some values of "best", anyway, and for three disks it's about the only opti

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Miles Fidelman wrote: Adrian Hall wrote: Put RAID 5 into Google and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague. Someone else on this list will likely give a better description.

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi! Adrian Hall wrote: > 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

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Adrian Hall wrote: Put RAID 5 into Google and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague. Someone else on this list will likely give a better description. last time I looked, wi

RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Adrian Hall
and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague.Someone else on this list will likely give a better description.Cheers,Ade.> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:11:22 -0600> To: debian-user@lists.debia

RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Telly Williams
Tell me to move this if this is the wrong place to ask, but: RAID recognizes a number of HDD's as one homogeneous drive. If I have, say, 3 HDD's, and I divide those 3 between my /, /tmp, and /dev locations (I picked arbitrary points), is that like having a virtual RAID system? Or not because