Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:49:58 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Jev <jev@ecad.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X? Message-ID: <428D1816.4000100@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <428B6F96.1080500@ecad.org> References: <428B6F96.1080500@ecad.org>
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Jev wrote: >Hi All, > >We have a new box with 4 200GiG IDE disks, we wish to set it up using >software raid, and I'm aware there are many options, from vimum, gvinum, >various other geom classes... > >What is the best option looking to the future, that is usable for now? > >We are looking for data safety over speed. > You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement, and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of copying data from the known good disk. If RAID10 is too complicated, I'd say set up a pair of RAID1 volumes via gmirror. That will give you 400G total data. It is not the best way to utilize your capacity, but then, I assume you have 200G drives because disk is cheap these days. Cheers, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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