[TriLUG] New system configuration thoughts

[MG]

Speaking of redundancy, did anyone else get the last 10 or so messages 
twice?

MG

Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> How is RAID mirroring not redundancy?  It's redundancy where you don't 
> have
> a system outage in order to replace a disk that has failed.  Odds are in
> your favor that you won't have 2 failures at the same time.  Mirror 
> first,
> _then_ you replicate the data to another system.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 5/2/07, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Jim Tuttle <jtuttle at prairienet.org> wrote:
>> > So, I've got a new system on the way and had a couple of questions
>> > someone here might have answers to.
>> >
>> < snip>
>> > Second, I wonder about hard drive configuration.  It's always been my
>> > policy to have 2 matched drives, say sda and sdb, and to back up 
>> each to
>> > the opposite drive. <snip>
>>
>>    I wanted to look up some URLs first, but redundancy is better than
>> Raid:
>>
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/18/0420247
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>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/004233
>>
>> (from StorageMojo)
>> the Google File System's central redundancy concept: forget RAID, just
>> replicate the data three times.
>>
>> john  mitchell
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