Hi guys,
I have been doing some digging around on google to find out more about raid as i have never played around with it before.
Am i right in saying you need 4 disks of any size, and they make basically 4 copies of a single file and then if 1 drive fails the others continue to work? Am i also right it saying that as sson as you replace the faulty drive the other drives fill the new one up with all up to date data?
Can you replace the drive without shutting down the machine?????
If this is the case is there such thing as a case that has the drives mounted in such a way that if one fails its just a matter of pulling the hard drive out of the front on rails like some cases have for dvd drives and replacing it with a new one?
i only ask guys because i recently built a huge server for some guys i know and they are using an awful amount of storage, in fact i put 6 500gb drives into for them. I was just wondering about the best way of doing backups to save time.
I have been doing some digging around on google to find out more about raid as i have never played around with it before.
Am i right in saying you need 4 disks of any size, and they make basically 4 copies of a single file and then if 1 drive fails the others continue to work? Am i also right it saying that as sson as you replace the faulty drive the other drives fill the new one up with all up to date data?
Can you replace the drive without shutting down the machine?????
If this is the case is there such thing as a case that has the drives mounted in such a way that if one fails its just a matter of pulling the hard drive out of the front on rails like some cases have for dvd drives and replacing it with a new one?
i only ask guys because i recently built a huge server for some guys i know and they are using an awful amount of storage, in fact i put 6 500gb drives into for them. I was just wondering about the best way of doing backups to save time.