From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aragonx@dcsnow.com Subject: Re: Several steps to death Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:48:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4eae8d29d5e663323c7be0a31c8b6262.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> References: <55f050077e86adeb1f4acca87cace12b.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> <4B5EB5BD.7070406@shiftmail.org> <5931ac0a02f59a2a2e1db82c630ff474.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> <4B5EEFD7.2080407@shiftmail.org> <37bfaf9c6cbe90557cdef839be3ff20f.squirrel@www.dcsnow.com> <1264517763.30742.88.camel@test.apertos.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1264517763.30742.88.camel@test.apertos.eu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids > You should have also used '--assume-clean' so that no data would be > written onto the array while the array was assembled. Saved my ass > earlier. A very good thing to know. I wish I would have known earlier. I had tried the create trick before and it worked fine so I figured that was all I needed to do. This RAID stuff may be too involved for what I need. It is only about 2TB of data. I may just split it up between two 2TB hard disks and leave it be. So I guess that opens this up to a question. What would everyone suggest I do. Should I try the software RAID again? Should I go with a hardware controller? Or should I just have two independent disks? Right now I have 5 750GB disks that were part of the RAID 5. I can of course reuse those in whatever solution I go with. My thinking this morning is to setup a 2nd server with the 5 750GB disks and leave that as a software RAID. Then I would purchase 2 2TB disks for my current server and just use them as-is. Throughput is a concern though. I currently was getting 50MB/sec over the network. This was okay but I really wanted to get that up to 75MB/sec or more. Suggestions? --- Will Y.