Re: best hardware spec for fileserver

From: Jeffrey Alsip (jeffreyalsip_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/07/05

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    To get the "drive mirroring" that you describe, you want to use RAID 1.

    I hope you are referring to a hardware RAID (firmware running inside a
    seperate RAID controller) and not some form of software RAID, as those
    things are crap.

    In addition to the RAID 1 setup, you want a server that allows you to
    "hot-swap" the bad drive without having to power down the system. 

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