Re: [OT] RAID

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

how about an auto-load recordable DVD drive for back-up ... juke-box
style ... if there is such a thing ?

Chris


On 12 Jul 2007, at 17:40, Dave Sussman wrote:

> I depends upon the RAID card; I've a HighPoint card that doesn't
> support
> this, nor does it support dynamic resizing of the raid partition.
> Other,
> more expensive cards may support this. I'd just mail the manufactures
> and ask them.
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> I've actually dropped RAID 5 from my server, after a disastrous power
> supply problem which caused multiple failures on multiple discs,
> leaving
> me with a completely broken array that wouldn't rebuild. I've now
> abandoned RAID altogether on the system drive and am using a small
> 40Gb
> drive PATA drive which I'm imaging using DriveImage; this means it's
> easy for me to get back up and running quickly. The data partitions
> are
> all mirrored and I think for home use this is almost better, as if one
> drive fails then at least you've a standard usable drive on the
> mirror.
> Ultimately I think I'll use something like drobo for most of my data,
> once (if?) they get a NAS version.
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> d
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Rob Mouser
> Sent: 12 July 2007 16:42
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] RAID
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> I know the subject comes up from time to time.................
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> Just a theoretical question. Here is the scenario:
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> Current server is SATA, no raid and one 80gb system drive.
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> Need/want to upgrade to RAID 5.
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> So if a RAID card is added and a further 3 more drives are bolted in.
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> Will the raid (or software) config be clever enough to start spanning
> over the 4 drives?
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> Then could the original 80gb drive be retired.
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> How do I know the answer to that is going to be 'no' :-).
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> In other words go from 'no raid' to 'raid 5' without having to copy
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> system partition or re-load the OS.
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> Rob
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