[geeks] recommended dual channel LVD controller, PC

[Kevin]

That configuration would have saved us a lot of heart ache last
tax season when an IBM ServeRAID card failed (assuming that you
are using two controllers.)

For us however, the extra cash outlay prohibits it.

/KRM

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:18:44 +1000
Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:12:05PM -0400, Phil Stracchino
> wrote:
> > > So what about RAID 1+5?
> > 
> > 1+5 is somewhat of a meaningless combination.  I can think of
> > no rational reason for doing it.
> 
> You'd be surprised how many people actally mirrored RAID-5
> volumes. Generally it's done as a combination of two hardware
> RAID-5 arrays mirrored to each other. It gives a good
> combination of double redundancy at the disk level (and having
> seen double-disk failures more than one this isn't a bad
> thing!) as well as full redundancy of the hardware RAID array
> itself (plus cables/cards/etc).