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Quote from: ebscreen on November 18, 2015, 01:12:09 PMI forgot to mention that's how we have our machines setup already. I would actually ratherraid the OS drive because that would be the majority of our time recovering from a failure,reinstalling all of our programs etc. Storage is just that, a fairly long copy time and we'dbe done.EB,You could just image the OS drive once you get it setup like you want. You could even take a spare drive, clone it and then just let it sit for that day the OS shits the bed. You could run the cloning process from time to time to keep it updated.To do raid 1 properly I think you need hardware and as Pierre said, it's picky.I have a client that uses Raid 1 for his boot drives... the whole server MUST be running... it's running a raid 1 card and he has a second one sitting on a shelf in case that card shits the bed. He can't afford to be down and he has to pay for it.It would be cheaper to do what I'm suggesting, but he has lost 2-3 hard drives since I built the system and he's never known. The card just emails me, I get a new drive and go install it. He's only down for a few minutes during lunch.My production manager's PC flipped out on us the other day (hard drive controller driver issue)... he just moved over to another PC to get his work done while I sorted it all out.
I forgot to mention that's how we have our machines setup already. I would actually ratherraid the OS drive because that would be the majority of our time recovering from a failure,reinstalling all of our programs etc. Storage is just that, a fairly long copy time and we'dbe done.
... never knew about it as the server was not configured to send notifications and we were not checking since everything was working fine!). ...pierre
Admiral, you can't do raid on OS drives with software alone. It has to happen at the hardware level to be able to boot.