Which Drives to Install

[vgbaron 3,627]

12 hours ago, SteveW said:

But with talking RAID it should be considered for its reliability and ease of fault recovery as I said earlier rather than a means to improve load times.

You are 100% correct Steve, in the REAL world.   But this is flight sim world - I'd venture a guess that the majority of users are more concerned with load times and performance than they are with fault recovery. I read FAR MORE posts stating, "I wiped the drive and reinstalled" than I do "I restored from backup and continued".

I do not believe that "safer but slower" would be a popular mantra among simmers. 

Vic

[SteveW 1,792]

1 minute ago, vgbaron said:

You are 100% correct Steve, in the REAL world.   But this is flight sim world - I'd venture a guess that the majority of users are more concerned with load times and performance than they are with fault recovery. I read FAR MORE posts stating, "I wiped the drive and reinstalled" than I do "I restored from backup and continued".

I do not believe that "safer but slower" would be a popular mantra among simmers. 

Vic

It's not slower, just safer and often it is also faster. I'm not sure you follow me. So if it's made affordable it's going to look dumb not having it eventually.

[SteveW 1,792]

...so you wake up tomorrow morning you switch on and it says:

Failed to boot.........

or

Drive 1 in array 0 failed. Please continue with your work.

[vgbaron 3,627]

43 minutes ago, SteveW said:

...so you wake up tomorrow morning you switch on and it says:

Failed to boot.........

or

Drive 1 in array 0 failed. Please continue with your work.

I just start up my second computer and fix the other one later.  

Vic

[SteveW 1,792]

Would be nice to just open the lid there's 5 sticks one's got a red light the rest green. Order three more. Throw away the red one plug in the three new ones, the array starts rebuilding, close the lid. Now we got more storage and if we leave it a while it figures out an even faster way to store it with more drives for stripe and parity and shuffles it around while we work. If we start to use it all up we just add another drive or two and let it get on with it.

 

[vgbaron 3,627]

I have my office systems set up in RAID 0+1 - drive fails - hotswap a new one - rebuild happens - continue as  normal. Gotta love technology.

Vic