Hi,
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > - Does it need RAID or so for reliability?
> I'm not really a RAID convert.
> I haven't had any problems with my SCSI disks,
> and people seem to have as many problems with RAID disks
> as with SCSI disks.
> But this is probably an old-fashioned point of view.
RAID and SCSI are not mutually exclusive for disks. You can have SCSI or
SATA (or IDE) disks in RAID arrays.
You might be right that SCSI would be more reliable than SATA (opinion
seems to vary), but 2x SCSI disks in RAID1 would likely be more reliable
again. It would of course also be more costly. I always suppose that a
disk failure is inevitable and although I may have backups, I'd really
rather buy the extra disk rather than have to restore an entire system from
backups whenever the failure finally happens.
I tend to reach for linux md software raid ahead of hardware raid
controllers.
Gavin
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