On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/12/2010 10:39 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... > >>> ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply > >>> sucks ;-( > >> > >> So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? > >> That the software raid people were and have always been right? > > > > Nope, storage sucks, that includes the software ;-) > > If you can split the storage up into 2TB or smaller volumes that you can > mount into sensible locations to spread the load and avoid contention > you can always use software RAID1. Funny you should mention software RAID1... I've seen two instances of that getting silently out-of-sync and royally screwing things up beyond all repair. Maybe this thread has gone on long enough now? /Peter > That at least has the advantage of > being able to recover the data from any single drive that might still > work after a problem. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100113/0495e05e/attachment-0005.sig>