Re: [Nolug] NAS

RAID5 best of both worlds?? That *highly* debatable, since it's
write performance stinks. You need scads of BBC to make it effective.

On 2010-04-10 14:14, Chris Jones wrote:
> Well, there's no such thing as raid10 with 2 drives. You need at least
> 4 drives for raid10. With 2 drives it would be raid1. Or raid0, but
> only a fool would put important data on a raid0. ;) raid0 is best for
> use as a temporary place for data processing. Raid5 is the best of both
> worlds, and is the most cost effective.
>
>> On Apr 10, 2010 1:41 PM, "Joey Kelly" <joey@joeykelly.net
>> <mailto:joey@joeykelly.net>> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat April 10 2010 1:29 pm, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net
>> <mailto:joey@joeykelly.net>> wrote:
>> > > On Sat April 10 2010 1...
>>
>> OK, let me be less cryptic.
>>
>> RAID5 with 3 drives, or RAID10 with two... fine, lose one drive,
>> you're still
>> OK. Forget I even said anything.
>>
>> BUT... I do have to step in and complain loudly about software RAID.
>> If you
>> don't care about your data, feel free to set up software RAID.
>>
>> The same thing goes for Fake RAID. If you like your data and want to
>> keep it,
>> get a real controller.

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