If you don't know what RAID is I'd stay away from it. 99.9% of home users don't need it...the other .1% are hobbyists most likely. RAID is for small businesses who can't afford downtime and enterprise level. Mike
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ranbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > > Can you elaborate? I get that a HD failure will make back ups on it mute, > but I am now backing up onto an external drive. Is the idea that if I also > back up on the HD, I will then have 2 copies in case one or the other > drives > fail? > > No idea what RAID is, and almost afraid to ask or want to know if I need to > know about this, yet another thing to ponder and maybe spend money on. > > Thanks, > > Randall > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Maybe what I'm really asking is what does the > > >back up on the computer actually do and what and how does it prevent > nasty > > >things from happening? > > > > That depends on how you have your backup set up. It is therefore a good > > idea to occasionally pretend that your hard drive has failed and see what > > your backups can do for you. Sometimes the answer is not a happy one. > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > > ************************************************************************* > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
