On Sat November 8 2008 00:43:10 lee wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:29:55 -0500 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:20:51PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > > > If you do only have three drives, add it to the raid1 array. > > Hm, if you do that, is there any other use for the third disk than as a > spare?
RAID is a tool. You look at your system requirements and often RAID will help your meet them. But requirements differ and RAID applications differ. Earlier Henrique pooh-poohed the idea of not swapping over RAID, but there are of course situations where performance trumps risk. As for three-disk RAID 1, it's useful where disk reads are the bottleneck and disk write volume (including atime updates) is low. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
