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Samstag:
If you're using a dedicated RAID card there's not much point in using a seperate OS disk.
Do a search for RAID in this forum and you'll find a lot of other good advice. It seems to come up a few times a year.
boykster:
I prefer a seperate OS drive but it's not necessary. the array is more "portable" if you dedicate it to data only and don't have the OS on it. Lets say the motherboard dies on your array; you can pull the card and drives and put them in another system and be back up and running in no time...
patrickl:
--- Quote from: boykster on February 01, 2008, 03:32:51 pm ---I prefer a seperate OS drive but it's not necessary. the array is more "portable" if you dedicate it to data only and don't have the OS on it. Lets say the motherboard dies on your array; you can pull the card and drives and put them in another system and be back up and running in no time...
--- End quote ---
If your OS is on the array (ie no separate OS disk) and the new computer has a separate OS disk then it should still work fine right?
boykster:
sure, but its cleaner to have it seperate. Also, consider if your boot sector gets corrupted and you need to manipulate the partitions; if the boot drive is seperate, you can change it at will with no worry about compromising your data array.
Just my approach, either way is valid
patrickl:
I set it up once with a seperate system drive (using soft raid), but I always kept worrying about the system drive becoming corrupt.
With soft raid I would use a seperate OS drive (you probably have to have at least a separate partition then anyway) and with hardware raid I'd simply install the OS on the array.
A big problem I still have is with backups. How do you backup 1.3TB? Well I have it only filled to 900GB or so, but still. My ReadyNAS does automatic backups to a external drive, but they aren't big enough. I could setup a second raid unit, but that's kinda costly.
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