How to create a terabyte storage array?

[Zach]

I think I might not have conveyed my original point very well.  Some
posters are very defensive of raid and may mistakenly believe that I
was discounting as a potential solution.

All I was really trying to say (somewhat clumsily) was that what a
raid setup protects you you from that any other solution (LVM, JBOD,
single disk) combined with regular backups doesn't is downtime in the
event of a physical disk failure, since you can rebuild the array from
parity (assuming you have a replacement disk) without having to do a
complete restore.

I just wanted to suggest that for some users, the time it takes to
restore from backup to get the data back may not be a problem, and
might be worth the almost mindless simplicity of setting up LVM.

Personally I am a raid user (though not at the moment) and I think
various raid configuration s have some pretty neat implications.  I
just wanted add another idea that may be viable in some circumstances.
 Sorry for any confusion.

On 11/30/05, Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > File gets corrupted/damaged/deleted/misplaced/overwritten/etc--> go to
> > backup set and restore. That seems fairly relevent.
>
> It is irrelevant, as it can (and will) happen whether you have RAID-0,
> RAID-5, RAID-10 or JBOD storage. The way you configure your storage
> matters not if a user decides to run a 'rm -rf *' in his home
> directory or on his fileshare.
>