Digital BW, The Print

Richard,  I have a lot of drives but that’s not so important..each RAID 0
pair needs at least two drives.   So for my current latest configuration I
have a Raid 1 pair of 500gb hard drives as my system drive.  This gives me
100% back up of my 500gb system drives.   I also have the RAID 0 70gb of
scratch disk which is two drives and I also have a pair of RAID 1 750gb
drives for my photo storage.   All in all I have 6 drives in my system with
room for 2 more as needed.

I hope this helps.

Pal


On 1/29/08 2:24 PM, "Richard Smallfield" <r.smallfield@...>
wrote:

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> So how many physical hard drives does that give you?
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> If you had Raid 0 for everything surely that would be a lot of drives?
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> I'm wondering if I could do that with a Scratch partition on each of my two
> IDE storage drives.
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> thanks,
> Richard
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> At 11:07 AM Wednesday 1/30/2008, you wrote:
>> >I use a RAID 0 pair of 36gb 10,000 rpm drives for my scratch disk. This
>> >gives me a scratch disk of 72gb that is more than enough and very FAST. I
>> >have also used this configuration for my C (system) drive in the past but
>> >this is a dangerous way to go if you don¹t back up frequently. With faster
>> >SATA II drives I am now configuring my C (system) drive as a pair of RAID 1
>> >drives. This is reasonably fast and 100% fault tolerent.
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