RAID 0 risky ?
Is RAID 0 that risky anymore for data storage (IMAP mail files) ?
I figure that under normal wear and tear a drive should last about 5 years.
Does this sound right ?
I have 3 IBM SCSI 18GB drives.
With RAID 0, I get 51.5GB of storage space.
With RAID 5, I only get 37 GB of space with 20% wasted overhead.
RAID 0 and RAID 1 are less work for the disk volume than RAID 5.
So in an ideal world, volumes with RAID 0 or RAID 1 will last longer than
volumes in RAID 5.
Thus, it would be less risk to use RAID 0 or better RAID 1 than RAID 5.
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Ted Knab
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