Re: Mirrored Loadsource Drive W/ the rest Raid

I'm glad to see this opinion. It states my thoughts precisely.

I've gone the opposite route -- converting away from mirrored load-source -- 
but never converting to mirroring from an existing RAID5 configuration. Given 
the preparation and time involved contrasted with the questionable reward, and 
even ignoring the small risk in the procedure itself, I can't come up with any 
good reason to do this.

(...though I'd gladly be educated.)

Tom Liotta

On Tue, 08 January 2002, barsa@barsaconsulting.com wrote:

> Well, I guess the question is why are you doing this.  It will be a lot of
> work, not provide significantly better performance (could be worse), and
> you will still have a penalty of three drives to redundancy.

>
>                     "Chris Beck"
>                     <CBeck@good-sam.com
>
> --
> I have a new system with 22 drives.  Currently it is setup with RAID. I
> would like to change it to have the Loadsource drive Mirrored in one set,
> and then have two sets of 10 with RAID in one ASP.
>
> Is this Possible?
> If so any suggestions on doing it, the book does not seem to be much help.

--
Tom Liotta
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