Re: Mirroring AND raid 5 on the same system

From: wanderer (wanderer.1itoa6_at_mail.mcse.ms)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:37:48 -0600

Since this is software ie. partition mirroring, yes you can have two of
the drives with mirrored partitions and three drives with a raid5
partition. This would leave the space on one drive that is not
available on the other two due to the mirror set.

Personally I would never recommend or use software raid in production
environment. Raid cards are cheap these days and so much faster/better
then software raid. Hardware raid takes the load off the cpu thereby
making your system faster/more responsive. Hardware raid also has the
ability of doing hot spares so if a drive fails in your raid array the
hot spare kicks in and replaces the failed drive without you ever
touching the system. 

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wanderer
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