Goodsounds;352977 Wrote: > Wouldn't you be better off with just one drive and another drive as a > backup? Cheaper too. And lower power usage, if you care about such things (I do). IMHO, a RAID is not a backup - it's a way to ensure uptime through hardware failures. I'm actually pretty OK with my music server being unavailable for a bit. (note that, with windows, if you've been doing "open" backups, you can just use drive management to give your USB backup drive the same letter as the drive that just failed - and copy everything from the backup to the replacement internal drive in the background. > > With multiple drives, your risk of a drive failure is greater, isn't > it? Absolutely, but the repercussions are less. Again, I don't bother with a RAID on a music server, but I buy drives in pairs, one internal and one external, and backup regularly (no point in doing it if I haven't added any music since the last backup, so it varies). And I -should- buy two or three externals for each internal (so if something goes wrong during backup, I've still got the data). I don't bother with that either, but probably will eventually get bitten...
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