Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:28:10AM +, T o n g wrote: > Ok, seems everyone thinks this way. My justification was, HD normally not > dies all of sudden. There should be signs of failing sectors. When it > happens, I might have a better chance salvage from the other copy. Yeah, > I agree, this

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 5:57 PM, Greg Madden wrote: 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.

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:14 +, 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? It is not practical at all since if you loose the drive, you loose both partition, thus d

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
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 0.01% pe

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:14:53 +, T o n g wrote: > 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 0.01% people would d

Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
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 0.01% people would do that so I can't find any documents. - Having 2 partitions might n