[WriteLog] Of RAID, Drives, warranties, and reliability... (long)

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 05:57 PM 1/29/2003 -0600, Charles Morrison KI5XP wrote:

>If you want an inexpensive way to make sure your data is secure, load 2000
>or XP, and DUPLEX the drives, RAID 1.  2 disks, 2 controllers and allow the
>OS to do the mirroring.  Simple..

Your data is secure in the sense that if one disk goes down, the data is 
likely OK on the other disk.  However, if you accidentally delete a 
directory, then it's deleted from both disks - NO BACKUP.

73 - Jim AD1C


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