Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> RAID is protection against electrical or mechanical failure of the
> drive. But I think it's much more likely that you'll have a software or
> virus related failure and the RAID solution simply guarantees that
> you'll propagate the problem (which could include deletion or corruption
> of lots of data) to both copies.
>
Well, I've never had such a problem, but I just had a new HD fail a few
days ago. Also, I sit behind both router and software (not Windoze)
firewalls and have AV running all the time.
In any case, my strategy is dual, with one internal mirror and a second,
external backup, although I'm not sure how to make the external drive
bootable. I don't have Seagate drives for the simple reason that their
seek time specs are poorer than the WDs at the moment. Whether that has
any practical effect I don't know, but I don't have their backup
software. I suppose any sort of mirroring software might work with an
eSATA connection, as it looks just like an internal connection to the
software. One more thing to find out about. :-(
Moose
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