The deal with RAID is that it only protects you from hardware failure, not software failure. If you accidentally delete a file or someone hacks your machine, the data will be erased from both sides of the mirror.
Personally I think software failure is more likely than hardware (unless you have those IBM 75xx drives). You still can use two drives instead of a tape backup, just make an daily incremental backup to the backup drive plus a weekly full backup. From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'd recommend that you consider using RAID1 mirroring to help save you > from future problems if you're not going to enlist some kind of backup > system. I have recentl put together a machine that looks like: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
