On Sep 8, 2004, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But for _most_ people at home, I think RAID 1 (mirroring) is the way to go. For most people at home, RAID is not an option, because it takes more than one disk to do RAID (in a meaningful way :-) :-) RAID 1 trades a lot of space for some speed and peace of mind. I definitely like it, and use it on most boxes (although I'm looking into switching to LVM-based mirroring). But for your home multi-media backup collection, it's hard to beat raid5 (or, more recently, raid6), if you actually care about not having to rip everything again when a disk dies, and you can't afford twice the needed storage. I guess nowadays, with relatively inexpensive 200+ GB disks, this is no longer so much of an issue... -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
