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Re: [cobalt-users] raq4i vs raq4r
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] raq4i vs raq4r
- From: Hostmaster of the day <hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon May 28 17:55:01 2001
- Organization: Hostmaster
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Please be aware RAID0 on a 4i is about 20 % faster than
RAID1 on a 4r.
-Hostmaster ****
>
> > Yes. The RAID disk mirroring is good if the main hdd fails for any
> > reason - which they sometimes do. Again, the end-users see no
> > difference.
> > If you don't want RAID, you may as well go with an "i" and just
get a
> > lot of RAM added in.
>
> I've actually got a RaQ4i set up with bootable RAID1 of the relevant
> partitions (/, /var, and /home) and striped swap across both drives
(hda and
> hdc).
>
> I did this because I didn't want to spend an extra 2K (Aus $) to
get a
> $200.00 hard drive.
>
> Cheers,
> Brad
>
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