[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:23:05 +0200, Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
wrote:

> At our main development office, we have an external IDE-to-SCSI RAID,
> which, as a surprise to everyone, has turned out to be very unreliable.
> Of course you are safe against one disk failing. But we had other problems,
> like the RAID itself failing, second disk failing before recovery was 
> complete, two power supplies failing, firmware problems, etc.

Very bad product!

> 
> IMHO, as a home user you want individual disks with individual mount
> points and file systems. No LVM, no RAID. 

Wrong. As a home user I want to be save against the failure of one disk
and exactly this is achieved by software raid. 

> So, if one disk fails, you lose at most the data on that one disk. 

That's already very bad. If one disk fails with software raid you loose
nothing. 

> That also makes you much more flexible in regard to reconfigurations,
> testing a new Linux distribution, adding/changing disks, etc.

It is also very easy with software raid.

Emil