Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-30 Thread linux guy
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > A 17" laptop cuts an awfully large profile.   Are you sure there aren't two > SATA bays? My XPS 17 will have 2 SATA bays. One for the SSD with the OS and the other for a conventional HD with my data.I want to back both of these drives u

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Pete Travis
A 17" laptop cuts an awfully large profile. Are you sure there aren't two SATA bays? On Dec 28, 2011 10:27 AM, "linux guy" wrote: > Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://adm

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread linux guy
Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://a

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID ? Or would something like > rsync be better ? What happens the first time I plug my laptop into > the eSATA cable after being away from my desk ? What happens if there > is both new data and an error in existing data ? How does the RAID > software know

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> The overall RAID speed will be limited to the slowest drive. There is some No. On a RAID 1 array read speed is armwavingly the sum of the performance of both drive - actual numbers are a bit more complex because you now effectively have two disk heads on non SSD media cases. > buffering, and th

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linux guy writes: I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop. I've ordered a new Dell XPS 17 laptop which has an eSATA port. I'm sure that Dell appreciates your business. When I had a hard drive fail in one of my laptops, I simply replaced the hard drive. Question 1. Ho

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 05:57, schrieb linux guy: > How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID? what should this be? you have two cases: * RAID * no RAID dinish, this was it only they idea aving "sometimes" a RAID is very strange to say it polite signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread Mattias Hellström
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:57 AM, linux guy wrote: > I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop. > > Question 1. > > How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID ?   Or would something like > rsync be better ?   What happens the first time I plug my laptop into > the eSATA cable after be

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
One thing that luckybackup does is send status emails for each backup attempt. That would be really handy for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:43 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > I have never heard of any "sometimes" RAID setup. I don't think that > is possible. I know... it was a longshot. I would say just do incremental backups every night. > There are many tools, rsync being the most commonly used. If you use > LVM

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 05:57, linux guy wrote: > Given the nature of the SSD failure I experienced, from now on I wish > to have my laptop running a RAID1 setup via the eSATA port when its > used on my desk.   However, when its not used on my desk, I wish it to > function normally without the RAI

Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-27 Thread linux guy
I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop. I've ordered a new Dell XPS 17 laptop which has an eSATA port. Given the nature of the SSD failure I experienced, from now on I wish to have my laptop running a RAID1 setup via the eSATA port when its used on my desk. However, when it