Mitch Harding;198627 Wrote: > I agree that if you can only do one or the other, backups make more > sense, > assuming the backups do proper versioning. > > But for me, I do both. I take the backups for peace of mind, but if I > have > a drive failure, I like being able to be back up and running quickly. > I've > had one drive failure in my 8 years or so with this RAID setup, and the > rapidity with which I was back up and running was well worth it for me.
Certainly, if you can do both, that's great. But backups first, then RAID. BTW something to consider: will your RAID card still be available if it were to die? This happened to me recently - I had a RAID 0 (*cough, cough*) set on an Intel ICH5R southbridge RAID controller. Then the motherboard died. Where can you get a board with an Intel ICH5R RAID controller these days? Nowhere. The new Intel RAID controllers are incompatible with the data structure. The data on the drives was irretrievable. So I'll have to restore from backup. Still haven't fully recovered yet. A true hardware RAID controller, while expensive, will probably be available for quite some time though. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34845 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
