[CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Nov 18 20:01:53 UTC 2015


On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> It’s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to buy*another*  NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself.  Isn’t that what redundant storage is supposed to avoid?


no, RAID is purely availability when faced with single or double drive 
failure, nothing else.   classic raid is most certainly NOT about data 
integrity, as the raid stripes aren't checksummed, they assume hardware 
data integrity.



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz




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