software RAID-0 recommendations

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Sep 8 20:40:31 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:44:02PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > But for _most_ people at home, I think RAID 1 (mirroring) is the way to go.
> For most people at home, RAID is not an option, because it takes more
> than one disk to do RAID (in a meaningful way :-) :-)

That's why I suggest RAID 1, not RAID 5.

> RAID 1 trades a lot of space for some speed and peace of mind.  I
...
> I guess nowadays, with relatively inexpensive 200+ GB disks, this is
> no longer so much of an issue...

Exactly. I have my home system set up with two 160GB drives, and I mirror
half of each one. The second half of each drive is used for scratch space --
data I can relatively easily replace. (ogg rips from my CD collection, for
example).

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