I need a booze

[larciel]

YHPM

 

[Yanagi]

YHAR

 

[erikistired]

karma?

 

[Yanagi]

So this karma deal, whats it about?

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: larciel


RAID 5 is so fcuking not worth it now..

wtf?!

how do u lose data w/Raid5? unless 2 harddrives crash at same time?!

and since u spent the time to set up raid5, why didnt u setup a tape backup for 5% more cost?

RIP Tenacle porn/German shepard + girl/Tween bikini pics/Jailbait underwear dancers/you can fit 5 in her?!

 

[Kelemvor]

Exactly why I have all my pictures synced up over 3 PCs. If one or two die, I still have the data.

 

[Turin39789]

mmmm i learned my lesson after a click of death killed my music collection and ten years worth of documents and nostalgia. I still have the drive, keep meaning to buy a new big drive, and trying to freeze the old one and hope to get the stuff off, but i've essentially stopped buying computer hardware for other hobbies.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Exactly why I have all my pictures synced up over 3 PCs. If one or two die, I still have the data.

Threads like this remind me that I really need to come up with a backup solution.

What program do you use to sync your pictures with other PC's?

 

[Yanagi]

Thats exactly what happened. 2 HDDs did fall out of the raid array. However, seems like problem is (partitally) solved now.

And this is a RAID setup with SATA disks and intels ICH9R chip, meaning a tape drive is not exactly 5% of that setups cost...

 

[Analog]

I manually do it with synchtoy

 

[BabaBooey]

I lost my 300GB filled but thankfully I have everything backed up at a friends place...:beer:

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: larciel


RAID 5 is so fcuking not worth it now..

wtf?!

how do u lose data w/Raid5? unless 2 harddrives crash at same time?!

read the thread noob thats what happened

 

[mrCide]

one place I worked had 2 out of 3 drives die overnight in a raid5 array. that weekend sucked.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: wetcat007
That's nothing, I got 1.4TB spread over 4 drives on one partition using LVM(don't do this it's a bad idea if one drive fails your screwed). Anyways it's not working out so great at the moment so I'm currently running fsck on it.... I need to get around to putting a RAID5(software not hardware) together

Yea, well I have 80gb on my ipod.

Yea, well I have 180gb on my ipods.

I know how you feel wecat007, I have about the same amount of space on individual drives (not in any kind of single drive array). I am looking at options to build a raid 5 array with income tax just so I don't feel like I am right on the edge of being in the OP's situation

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: larciel

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: larciel

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Raid 5 is not supposed to do that to you, or is it Raid 1 I'm thinking of? Won't replacing the bad drive bring it all back, the parity drive is supposed to protect you, I thought.

I thought so, but when two HDDs go bad at the same time, you're SOL

yeah, that is the karmic bitch of raid 5. Who would think two drives would fail at once?

Yeah, I'm going to Raid 10. It also says ONE HDD failture per mirrorred set. There would be so little chance of that.

Go Raid 6. It's the same as Raid 5 but with 2 spares instead of 1. So instead of 8 drive minimum for raid 10, you have a 5 drive minimum for raid 6. You can use that extra money for more space or even find a raid 6+hot spare (for 3 failed disks before total loss of data).