Stupid RAID question

[William Muriithi]

> It depends. It's usual, and actually quite typical to have the OS and
> boot system in a non-RAID drive and then start your array from that
> disk. For example, older servers had a boot-up IDE drive and then from
> there you would start the array.
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Hmm, why would you do that whem you can boot straight on the RAID system and
hence avoid single point of failure? That was a good solution when GRUB was
not able to handle RAID

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> 1 small boot drive and then 2 others in raid 1, or 4 in raid 10
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RAID 10 would waste too much space I think. For more than 3 drives, RAID 5
would offer him more space. That would still be an overkill for a personal
desktop. A RAID 1 on two drive would be the cheapest solution

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> Alejandro Imass
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