On 01/22/2009 11:20 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:24:45AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/21/2009 11:30 PM, Matthew Moore wrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 09:13:07 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
That is exactly what I would do. Everyone warns about how cataclysmic
things will happen because your new uber-device has the same failrate as a
raid-0 setup, but as long as you backup regularly (perhaps to another LV
made from PV's on different disks) this isn't too much to worry about.
Backing up 2+ TB of data will require another 2x 1TB drives. And
*another* dual-drive external enclosure.
My wife will *not* be happy...
Remember, though, that you're adding older drives to the uber-device.
Even with new drives, the chance of failure increases with more devices.
This is why RAID was invented.
None are that old. Smallest is 640GB.
As for backing up multi-TB datasets, this is why tape drives were
invented.
She's very tolerant of my hobby. Bringing in tape drives and silos
would break that...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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