On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote: > 2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας <gpall@ccf.auth.gr>: > >> Hi all! >> >> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as >> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard >> to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two >> approaches better? >> > Mirrored raid would be the tool for this. LVM will not help should one > of the disks fail The 'data safety' I mentioned gave the wrong impression. Let me rephrase: I want to use the two disks aggregated (i.e. 1TB), and the question is if one of the two solutions gives me better chances to get some of my data back, in case of a full or partial failure of one of the two disks...
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