dullard;149785 Wrote: > That's why God gave us RAID-5 :) RAID-5 does not protect you from operating system errors or human errors. And the odds of two disks within a single RAID array breaking within a few days of each other, while very low, are not zero. RAID-5 is just one more tool in the fight to keep your data highly available.
I backup my data to a USB-attached hard drive, which I only attach when I am making backups, to reduce the chances that both my primary and backup drives will both be affected by the same event. When my backup drive failed, since I don't have RAID (yet), I was exposed. I won't personally feel completely safe about my backups until I have the means to back up my data to tape or optical media (in addition to backups to a second hard disk) ... maybe Blu-Ray will be my savior, once the prices come down :-) -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29003 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
