From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74080138CC5 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B956E0912; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46485E0904 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 08:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgen6 with SMTP id n6so142228418wge.3 for ; Mon, 04 May 2015 01:13:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=KMHCRuAqywDfQbCOsHtbs0GwquyGdSBsF7znRmpTbfw=; b=YlLkzlxBo5wUgweMOFX3aQd1q9wk5g46VRzBsBjOLqTXM/lc0nMUhKbi0hcDO1Kbmd P2LKV11FVTg6+fHBzX8uK49YD7Bw4S522d4fzb/nB0LWcgX7vdiYW37VHEIs4ab6Rx6M KB0iKf6RPPaSCWVJKAyVhffDAgciBqSAnH+3LJW5F8LisA8b9IbGWy1aTfVFjbveIZth ZX6Iumo5lUqoIaQz8/l4rYQjZmC197XZAlOQNrNiVyvjHiChOjQGMjlxG1C3TBsPz6AQ vRulAJxnup3rTOXL+chDS4slK4juoR44o1UN23/ZmH3rmg6JuMkHlBcp90XrmX2WWQtZ kTyA== X-Received: by 10.180.10.102 with SMTP id h6mr16734140wib.37.1430727207055; Mon, 04 May 2015 01:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bg4sm3269612wjc.10.2015.05.04.01.13.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 May 2015 01:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 09:13:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.18.11-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <553F474E.4040101@gmail.com> <5547221E.4020809@gmail.com> <20150504084626.26fbbbd8@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150504084626.26fbbbd8@digimed.co.uk> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1971712.kNrNGxvVUX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201505040913.16093.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 341769a5-6e92-449e-b7da-221d5286857c X-Archives-Hash: 247056134a844a68d8da19cd9e650537 --nextPart1971712.kNrNGxvVUX Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 04 May 2015 08:46:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not > > be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. >=20 > RAID is not a backup solution. Not only RAID 1 isn't a back up solution, because it offers temporary=20 redundancy rather than diverse protection, but under certain scenarios you= =20 have a much higher chance of losing your data when the first drive fails. = If=20 you bought two (or more) drives at the same time and built a RAID from them= ,=20 their failure performance due to same construction and age could be quite=20 similar. On many occasions your last healthy drive fails, just as you try = to=20 rebuild the RAID. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1971712.kNrNGxvVUX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJVRyobAAoJELAdA+zwE4YexNsIAJefy2bm3iM/xnY5DHUm47K6 hQPjhL5WJspcNPIRtNeWfwVcQyNynQTsRlG3H8UMbEmXqw2rHEvy98GGDmY3AB6r Cwrsc7abejCIBeeXwDmki/UtrsXyLDIiTus0Ezzxpx8JZfN6jEXlaqLFAhD1KsqO 87UUXGjlxjy0IphrHz54zeHUbdZCSeBlFCaEiuj3rUwekY8hUUaU4549XSA58BpJ STz7jbp7SoyeOzisVJhsOF5mwbIBzNo1CNnXU1Wyga6SGAyN4LpZkxqAhiwD3GT+ veDXXNI6XhJc0LE5rDCLer/lHpiBwO5Sf7WdcivuEYIsh/Nf/cgOrQ7lzjaHbpM= =Smss -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1971712.kNrNGxvVUX--