2009/4/11 Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> > > As has been mentioned in another thread, RAID 1 pairs with LVM is pretty > safe and flexible. The disadvantage is when adding more capacity, you have > to add drives in pairs.
With RAID 5, you don't have to add in pairs: just add a drive when you want to. If one drive fails, *all* your data is still safe :) The disadvantage is that you may not be able to utilise the entire capacity of each drive (unless they're all of equal size), but hey, nothing's perfect! Sam
