Re: Load Source Mirroring with RAID-5

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Palmer <neilp@dpslink.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Load Source Mirroring with RAID-5


>Does anyone still do this ?

No. Not unless the entire machine is mirrored.

>At one point on older hardware it was necessary when you couldn't have the
>load source drive in a RAID set, but with new systems does anyone still
>mirror the load source drive while using RAID-5 for the rest of the system

Exactly, and about the only reason to continue doing this is for older
hardware.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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