LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

[Richard Pieri]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> The bottom line is that you are much better off going with direct SATA
> rather than trying to stripe 10 USB drives together.

Indeed.  I've actually done something like this (with "only" 4 thumb drives 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.  Sure, 4 drives in a RAID5 configuration has redundancy but faults happen frequently and rebuild times are very long because the individual drives are so slow.

--Rich P.