At 07:04 PM 1/15/2007 -0500, Seth wrote:
>That's what Raid's are for.
>
>Raid's are redundant arrays of drives, i.e., your system writes identically
>to multiple drives. The controller is typically running in the bios (low
>level controller) and is configurable. Most newer motherboards have this
>capability . It's just a matter of turning it on and having multiple drives
>attached.
>I've seen hard drives crash, but never two crash simultaneously (even w/
>a power surge).
Seth,
Very True!!! But I for one can't afford a RAID setup. Yes you can mirror,
and that's not all bad. But if you really want security, then you want
RAID5. And that takes several drives. I maybe able to afford 1 extra drive,
but I don't think I'm going to spend the money for 3 to 5 extra drives.
Now if I were in business, that would be another story. At work we all our
servers are RAID5. And I think the only mother borads that have onboard
RAID rear the more expensive Server platforms. At least at work none of
our work stations have RAID but all the servers do.
John
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