Re: How to tell when a hardware RAID disk goes bad?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/25/08 15:38, Karl Schmidt wrote:
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> I don't see much value in raid other than raid-1 (mirror) anymore with 
> the huge, cheap drives available. There are times with RAID-0 (striping) 

If your main focus is capacity, then you are correct.  But 
distributing the data across multiple drives gives you better 
throughput, which is important for databases, file servers and big 
web sites.

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