[TriLUG] New system configuration thoughts

[John Mitchell]

On 5/1/07, Jim Tuttle <jtuttle at prairienet.org> wrote:
> So, I've got a new system on the way and had a couple of questions
> someone here might have answers to.
>
< snip>
> Second, I wonder about hard drive configuration.  It's always been my
> policy to have 2 matched drives, say sda and sdb, and to back up each to
> the opposite drive. <snip>

   I wanted to look up some URLs first, but redundancy is better than Raid:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/18/0420247

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/004233

(from StorageMojo)
the Google File System's central redundancy concept: forget RAID, just
replicate the data three times.

john  mitchell