twylie Wrote: > About 3 years ago, I sucked it up and built a dedicated server with > hardware RAID. I have a rather unfortunate tale to tell which may make you rethink whether total reliance on RAID is a good idea.
In my day job, I support a database for a large national company involved in the transport business (I better not identify them). That database was stored on a hardware RAID array. Back in 2002, we suffered a hardware or firmware fault (we never found out which) in the RAID controller, which decided to scribble over the file system allocation tables on all five disks. Moral of the story: valuable data should be backed up, even if it's on a nominally fault-tolerant RAID array. (I suppose in the case of CD rips, you could rationalise that a fault like this is so unlikely that you're prepared to re-rip everything if the unthinkable happens). -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
