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"It would add the cost of one disk, which is around $30-$50 these days." Plus the RAID card, if their working in hardware. Nice one's aren't cheap, and they're
by astine 17y ago
"It would add the cost of one disk, which is around $30-$50 these days."
Plus the RAID card, if their working in hardware. Nice one's aren't cheap, and they're bulky for something being put in a laptop.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=RAID&x=0&y=0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...
- jrockway 17y agoA RAID card is totally unnecessary. Software RAID is orders of magnitude faster than any disk it is going to be managing. We aren't talking RAID 0+5 for your credit card processing database. We're talking RAID 1 so that when your disk dies from all the soda you spill on it, you don't lose your porn stash. I use 3-way software RAID 1 for my homedir, and I don't regret it at all. It automatically fixes bad sectors when they occur (since the other disk has the correct data), and reads are 3x faster than they otherwise would be. And two disks can fail (and have), and I don't lose any data. It's great. For the cost of an extra disk, I would recommend the setup to anyone.
- Qz 17y agoAgreed, I had software RAID on my last setup and it made a huge difference.
- btilly 17y agoTrick I used to use was to have RAID 1 for my homedir, and then try 3 different mounts for /tmp. The first was RAID 0. The second two were trying to mount the two RAD partitions. It made /tmp larger and faster at the cost of a reboot if I crashed. Which seemed to be a worthwhile trade-off on a desktop.