[Leaplist] Distro and LAN choices, this works for me!

[Damien McKenna]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> With that scheme, you may as well go with a RAID-1 setup and not worry
> about backing up between the two drives. RAID-1 is easy and reliable
> enough to do via software or hardware

RAID-1 is no replacement for actual backups, and less reliable than  
having a mirror.  Of course, having RAI-1 *and* a mirror image is  
even better ;-)

> (whereas RAID-5 should really only be done via hardware or make REAL
> sure your UPS is rock-solid at all times).

You don't want to do RAID-5 in software as it will severely choke  
your I/O and CPU usage.

-- 
Damien McKenna - Husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/