unreadable sectors, what to do?

[Dave Ihnat]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:43:03AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> ... raid 1 allows you to repair the kind of damage you have without
> too much difficult, but at the cost of half of your disk space, which
> may be too high for you.

Ah...a single 500Gb drive is about $100 or so street price these days.
RAID0 over RAID1 is almost never justifiable, except maybe in a RAID10
config.

People time (recovery, reconfig) and data value massively trump disk storage
space today.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
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