[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[Simon Karpen]

On 12/17/2010 6:31 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> Depends on how you define Bang! ;)
It always does! Keep in mind this application was backup staging, which 
is important but not something you need 5 9's for.
> Also depends on how important the data you are putting on it is.
>
Well, I was suggesting buying it as a JBOD and pairing it with an 
existing or additional controller. And again, this is backup staging, 
which means you should still have both the backup and the source. I'd 
still suggest hardware RAID, as much for sysadmin sanity as anything 
else (disks fail).

But

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