[clug] forget RAID?
Ben
shadroth at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 02:50:09 GMT 2007
"one array drive failure means a much higher likelihood of another
drive failure."
"Further, these results validate the Google File System's central
redundancy concept: forget RAID, just replicate the data three times.
If I'm an IT architect, the idea that I can spend less money and get
higher reliability from simple cluster storage file replication should
be very attractive."
http://storagemojo.com/?p=383
So (not being overly knowledgeable in this are) what does this mean in
practical terms?
I currently have two servers on site - one backup and one web server.
Both have 2x200GB HDDs in software RAID1.
What sort of system should I setup to apply "cluster storage file
replication" or is RAID1 the most sensible option for my environment?
Is it as simple as making a backup server with 3HDDs, and setting up
some sort of automatic copying between them, rather than using RAID1?
- I'm not sure how this would help the problem noted in the article.
Or would I create two partitions on each drive, and copy hda1 to hdb2,
and hda2 to hdb1, for instance?
Ben
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