On 03/16/2011 06:29 PM, Mike Hobbs wrote:
>   On 03/16/2011 01:12 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
>> Just curious, why not put that jbod into a RAID array? I believe you'd
>> get far better performance with the additional spools and you'd get
>> redundancy as well.
>>
>> Personally I'd set that up as a RAIDZ using ZFS on FreeBSD.
>>
>>
> 
> I believe the reason why we decided not to use raid was in case the raid 
> array got corrupted.  We would then lose all of our backups.. Where as 
> if one disk dies, we only lose what was on that disk.  There may have 
> been another reason but  I think that was the main reason.
> 
> mike
> 

Nice but if the controller do silent corruption, you're down too :-)

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