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Re: Using USB Drives for a RAID



On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/18/07 19:39, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > Has anyone built a RAID out of USB drives?  I'm considering it but
> > I'd rather hear from others who may have done the same thing first.
> >  I can see several possible problems.  Last time I was working with
> > USG devices, if I unplugged the drives and did not plug them in
> > using the same order /dev/sda could become /dev/sdb, so I could see
> > that as an issue, for starters.
> >
> > If anyone has experience with this, I'd like to hear about it and
> > if it's a good or bad idea.
>
> What's the problem that you are trying to solve?

At this point I'm exploring several possibilities.  If USB RAID is not 
practical or workable, then I'll just drop the possibility and stick 
with sata or pata drives.

Hal



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