Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : astark
Date : Wed Aug 18 2004 09:18 pm

-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to All <=-

 AM> Here's a thought for my Music Server machine:

 AM> Do I actually want to configure the drives as a RAID array?  Or do I
 AM> simply have two partitions and periodically snapshot/copy one to the
 AM> other?  Thing is, I won't be _eriting_ to the array that often.  I
 AM> might be _reading_ data off the array all day as I listen to music, but
 AM> I won't be _writing_ to the array other than when I acquire a new
 AM> album, which certainly isn't every/all day.

 AM> So is there any advantage to configuring two separate partitions and
 AM> adding a copy to partition #2 as part of the usual rip/encode/dbinsert
 AM> process?  I'm thinking you could spin down one disk and run only one
 AM> and at some time you could spin up the second disk, unmount/mount and
 AM> spin down the first disk so as to spread the wear'n'tear.  Make the
 AM> changeover a cron-job at 5:30 AM, & maybe an MD5 comparison of all disk
 AM> objects so as to spot any differences that need to be eliminated.

 AM> Or should I use plain old RAID?


Im interested in how your going to do this as well as upon my return to the
states I am
moving my mp3 drive to a dedicated machine and want to put as least ammount of
wear and tear
on it as possible =)

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