LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 12/15/2009 01:49 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> The bottom line is that you are much better off going with direct SATA=

>> rather than trying to stripe 10 USB drives together.
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> Indeed.  I've actually done something like this (with "only" 4 thumb dr=
ives because that's how many ports I have on the handy little hub).  It's=
 an amusing experiment but it isn't worthwhile in any production capacity=
=2E  Sure, 4 drives in a RAID5 configuration has redundancy but faults ha=
ppen frequently and rebuild times are very long because the individual dr=
ives are so slow.
>
>  =20
Rich,
What is your recommendation.
1. eSATA vs USB
2. Stripe with no redundancy vs. RAID1 vs. RAID5 vs RAID-other

Basically, I think that Dave Ritter's point was that USB itself is too
slow and unreliable.  I personally would not place a production drive on
USB.



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