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Re: Soft-RAID and Hard-RAID?

This is inaccurate as well...RAID 5 configurations function perfectly well with one drive missing, and rebuilding a drive can happen "on the fly" with the volume(s) still online. Depending on how a RAID 1 mirror is configured, you may have to restart a system if one drive fails. RAID 5 is typically more solid in terms of uptime than RAID 1.

On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 02:36 PM, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:

RAID-3 through RAID-5 is great if you don't have to be up 100% of the time but still need protection against drive failure (because even if you have hot-swappable bays, it takes time to rebuild the data after you swap out the bad drive with a blank good drive: the rebuild time being dependent on how much data was on the RAID system before one drive went bad).


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