The main story has a link to "Desktop RAID is a bad idea." http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=116 The reasons are much the same as we covered here last month.
>I'm not sure why in the case of RAID, the idea is that if it >fails at all, the entire idea of RAID is a failure. Statements like this make me think that the "R" in RAID stands for Religion. Something not working should be a sufficient reason for not doing it. If it isn't, the list of things that don't work that you should do anyway is quite endless. How about putting a Redskins bobblehead on your drive case to ward off evil data-sucking spirits? >Neither camps who seem to not like RAID much offer anything whatsoever to >replace it. The above mentioned article suggests Carbonite and Mozy. I suggest an external drive (RAIDless). If you must invoke the spirits you can run your backups with Ghost. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
