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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions
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Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de> w=
rote:
>> Mark Knecht schrieb:
>>>
>>
> <Smiling broadly...> :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe
> keeps me happy. :-)
>=20
> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB
> green drives. Now I just need to decide what sort of RAID to use. I
> don't need much speed writing so I'm thinking maybe a 3 drive RAID1
> setup with a hot spare managed using mdadm and then LVM on top of it.
>=20

With 4 drives, you could build a RAID-6, too. It's like a RAID-5 but
protects against failure of any two drives.


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