Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Image storage
From: eperea at walkereng.com (Emilio Perea)
Date: Sun Jun 3 11:29:08 2007
References: <C28830AE.D277%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> <4662F512.6080904@summaventures.com>
 
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:06:26PM +0100, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> ... Anyway it was a dual disk enclosure claiming to be RAID 1 which
> suggests that it was probably only two largish disks with an
> aggregate 1TB, not 2 x 1TB drives mirroring. Price around GBP 375.

Peter, RAID 1 would require two 1TB drives mirroring.  "RAID 0" would be
two 500GB drives pretending to be 1TB.  This cleverly doubles the
chances for a catastrophic failure over having a 1TB (or two 500GB)
drive(s).  It might be capable of serving as 1TB "RAID0", 500GB RAID1,
or even as two non-RAID 500GB drives, in which case it would be a nice
thing to have.  Leave "RAID0" to the "gamers"; it's useless for anyone
else.
In reply to: Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Re: Image storage)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] Re: Image storage)