20 Dec
2017
20 Dec
'17
4:38 p.m.
On 20 December 2017 at 14:52, Paul Tansom paul@aptanet.com wrote:
RAID wise, I always use the Linux software RAID to mirror my drives.
Agreed.
There is a very big advantage when your hardware fails (it will!!) that you have a RAID technology that transfers between hardware, and that you can take your drive out of the failed hardware, stick it into a USB caddy and access the data from any Linux PC.
For that reason, I only use RAID1 whenever possible; recovering your data from one drive of a redundant pair is much easier than trying to reconfigure a (eg) RAID5 array to get data off.
Mark
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