[BC] Partial recovery

[Cowboy]

On Friday 27 March 2009 02:09 pm, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

>  I've always been afraid of the processor deciding to write garbage to the
>  hard drives, and the raid array dutifully accepting that garbage.

 That doesn't have anything to do with what the disk might be.
 ANY disk will trash under that kind of system failure.

>  I tried 
>  hardware raid using an on-board Promise RAID controller chip back when I
>  was running Red Hat 9.

 I've used the Promise. It's a proprietary addressing scheme though.
 Lose the card, and you've lost everything.

>   though, we're working on digital cinema servers and need RAID to get
>  the required throughput. That's not my department, though...

 RAID-0 can provide almost 4 times the throughput of a single disk, but
 offers no protection against data loss.

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Cowboy