On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:03 -0700, Austin Godber wrote:
Thank you for the clarification Craig, I am re-examining my storage strategy, thus my email. Sadly this machine has been in service a number of years and already contains more data than is possible in a RAID 10 configuration. If I had the spare space and resources I'd be thrilled to switch to RAID 10. That is not the case, however. Given that, I am faced with the choice between having the machine entirely unusable between now and when I can acquire a BBU or using it with the risk of data loss/corruption, I will chose the latter. Neither data loss nor corruption would go unnoticed in the period that this will be necessary.
Does that sound entirely unreasonable?
---- reminds me of dialog in 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'...
Charlie: "For example, how many people have you brutally murdered?"
Harriet: "Brutal" is a very subjective word. What's brutal to one person might be reasonable to somebody else."
I think SATA hard drives are so cheap nowadays, that it's hard to justify choosing RAID 5 for more yield at the cost of performance and reliability.
Craig