Re: [tlug] Hard Drive Failure (Was: Help! Total hardware failure)

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Mark Makdad wrote:
> Well, it was 36,000 JPY for the NAS storage unit including 2 drives. 
>  Should you just buy 2 drives and hook them up to your box and set up 
> software RAID via Linux, I think you'd achieve the same effect with only 
> the cost of 2 drives = 20,000 JPY.

You can do better then that[1] but you would be best to get identical 
drives if possible.

> The issue here is that the NAS box is hardware RAID, so it tends to be 
> slightly faster than software RAID.  At least theoretically.  Anyone 
> want to take me on there?

For the sort of raid card in a NAS box I don't think you will notice any 
difference.  I run everything off software raid and it works very well 
but it is easier if you don't configure it for your root directory.  As 
I think someone mentioned you still need to backup because this won't 
help you in the

# rm -fr /

case.  Rsync can be pretty handy for doing backups[2].

Edward

1. http://kakaku.com/item/05302015815/
2. http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html