[REVIEW] Drobo

[Peter Corlett]

On 30 Jan 2009, at 10:10, Roger Burton West wrote:
[...]
> (Getting my "CD elimination server" up and running was a bog- 
> standard PC
> build, plus about ten minutes of reading mdadm documentation. I like
> mdadm. Even when it tickled an obscure kernel bug that made it look as
> though all the drives were failing at once, it managed to avoid losing
> any data.)


I've managed to lose data with md, but it does take a *lot* of effort  
and/or stupidity to do it. It involved USB drives and a particularly  
crazy configuration.

My favourite md-related misconfiguration - not one I've yet managed to  
do myself - is to configure a two-disk RAID1 set with one disk for  
data and one hot spare.