RAID
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So Paul, what about some of the hybrid RAID arrangements. I believe that RAID 0+1 exists and seems moderately popular for small scale (e.g. home-use). RAID 0 is popular with bedroom musicians for audio use because of it's data throughput and the fact that it's becoming quite common on motherboards these days. You're right about the backing up though - I know several people who have lost audio projects to disk failures in RAID systems. The failure rate is actually increased in RAID 0 when compared to a single drive.
So Paul, what about some of the hybrid RAID arrangements. I believe that RAID 0+1 exists and seems moderately popular for small scale (e.g. home-use). RAID 0 is popular with bedroom musicians for audio use because of it's data throughput and the fact that it's becoming quite common on motherboards these days. You're right about the backing up though - I know several people who have lost audio projects to disk failures in RAID systems. The failure rate is actually increased in RAID 0 when compared to a single drive.
posted by Bluebear at
1:56 pm
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Good point - I forgot to mention that RAID levels aren't all mutually exclusive...
Interesting that you can have RAID 0+1 or RAID 1+0 and they are different. In RAID 0+1 a bunch of disks are striped as 2 or more sets, and then each set is mirrored. In RAID 1+0, multiple sets of mirrored disks are striped.
Thinking about that has given me a headache now, and it's not even quarter to eight already!
--Paul
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