In Reply to: Re: RAID Array ? posted by Rod M on May 11, 2007 at 08:49:45:
An even more fault tolerant flavor is RAID 10 (really 1+0). Here multiple RAID 1 drives are all mirrored. In this case, however, it would require eight drives. 4 data + 4 mirrors. You can lose half the array (so long as you don't lose both a primary and its mirror) and it still runs.Another advantage to RAID 10 is that the drives don't have to be striped. You can run the OS on one drive pair and the data on the others. In that way, even if there is a total failure, you don't necessarily lose both the OS and the data.
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Follow Ups
- As another computer geek - E-Stat 09:39:34 05/11/07 (6)
- You lost me, but maybe not. ;-) - AbeCollins 12:08:15 05/11/07 (1)
- Sure it is - E-Stat 12:36:23 05/11/07 (0)
- Re: As another computer geek - Rod M 10:07:42 05/11/07 (3)
- You could easily go RAID 10 - E-Stat 10:39:56 05/11/07 (2)
- Re: You could easily go RAID 10 - Rod M 18:13:20 05/11/07 (1)
- Sure they do - E-Stat 21:17:54 05/11/07 (0)