On 12/10/2007, Dave Ihnat <dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:43:03AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > ... raid 1 allows you to repair the kind of damage you have without > > too much difficult, but at the cost of half of your disk space, which > > may be too high for you. > > Ah...a single 500Gb drive is about $100 or so street price these days. > RAID0 over RAID1 is almost never justifiable, except maybe in a RAID10 > config. > > People time (recovery, reconfig) and data value massively trump disk storage > space today. Entirely agreed. One could argue that raid0 actually *increases* your chances of data loss, as you have twice the chance of a drive failing.
