From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8vZC-0007QW-MS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:24:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9757BE0477; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63444E0477 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9C3DEC22 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:18 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BGu+PFoq2C9o for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:18 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4B5DEB9C for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:18 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations? Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201104100850.41768.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104101523.17844.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 88721015f134906b8edd47d787add7e1 On Sunday 10 April 2011 14:50:59 Mark Knecht wrote: [...] More useful info - thanks to you too. > As for hardware RAID the risk I hear about there is that if the > controller itself fails then you need an identical backup controller > or you risk the possibility that you won't be able to recover > anything. I don't know how true that is or whether it's just FUD. That sounds painful. Makes me glad I'm a skinflint and stuck to software RAID! -- Rgds Peter