Re: Go RAID?

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:17:04 +0000, Jim Showalter wrote:

I have always been diligent about daily backups and that policy has
served me well over the years. I have files on my system dating to the
early '90's.

I used to use tape drives, but kept outgrowing them as HD's rapidly got
larger and cheaper. My current scheme is to backup to USB drives.

A friend who uses RAID says conventional backups are unnecessary. Would
I be better-off taking my external drive out of it's enclosure and
mounting it internal for use in a RAID 1 mirror?

Your friend is wrong. Always get tape... or at least have any data you
can't afford to lose on two different drives on two different devices.

Though I am a big fan of RAID it has no capacity for the prevention of
logical corruption and isn't immune to hardware failures.

All RAID does is make your drives redundant... what if it's the drive
controller that fails and starts spewing gibberish all over your data?
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: raid controller
    ... In his article he states four major reasons to discourage RAID; ... Without RAID you could do a traditional backup at 8:00 AM and at 8:30 AM ... But It's asking for 'RAID Controller' ... hard drives with drive/s C on both drives. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
  • Re: Disk partitioning question
    ... A hardware RAID Volume may exist without any RAID Drives on it. ... > This single array will show up as Disk 0 in Windows Disk Manager. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Need help installing OS6 on Dell PowerEdge 2600 with PERC4/Di RAID
    ... > like a fresh install and porting their application and data to the new system. ... PERC4/Di RAID on the motherboard, Dell DLT tape drive, Dell slimline ... PATA connector usable for two PATA drives. ... After downloading drivers from both SCO and Dell to create the ...
    (comp.unix.sco.misc)
  • How I built a 2.8TB RAID storage array
    ... My 2.8TB RAID 5 array is finally up and running. ... Nine 400GB PATA drives; eight for use, ... Two Highpoint RocketRAID 454 cards. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Re: Paul and Old Man: Cannot fix RAID5 failure ...
    ... all of the sudden the Intel Matrix Storage ROM showed Rebuild status. ... When booting form RAID, there is some activity while the screen is black, ... Considering 3 SATA drives spining up after powerdown may cause a 12V ... I was considering a parallel WinXP installation on a 4th disk, ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)