[G4] EIDE and Ultra ATA RAID

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How do you get the data off the surviving drive in a mirrored RAID 
array if the array fails?

On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Johns Maillist wrote:
>
>> The noted possibility of data loss in the case of one drive failing 
>> is correct. But, I often wonder what happens if you do not run a 
>> STRIPE set, just a standard drive set up, one ATA drive, and IT 
>> fails. Do you not lose your data?
>
> Yes, but the difference is that with RAID 0 you loose all of the data 
> on both drives. With two individual drives you have the same chance of 
> a hardware failure, but you only loose the data on the failed drive.
>
>
>> The safer manner is to use mirrored system.
>
> I agree. Drives are so inexpensive these days that it doesn't make 
> sense to not use mirroring - and backups.
>
> Phil
>
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