Mick wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2015 08:46:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not >>> be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. >> >> RAID is not a backup solution. > > Not only RAID 1 isn't a back up solution, because it offers temporary > redundancy rather than diverse protection, but under certain scenarios you > have a much higher chance of losing your data when the first drive fails. If > you bought two (or more) drives at the same time and built a RAID from them, > their failure performance due to same construction and age could be quite > similar. On many occasions your last healthy drive fails, just as you try to > rebuild the RAID. >
I think this has happened to folks on this list. I've read about this somewhere before. It makes sense too. I'd like to have two different brands of drives if I could. That should spread things out, maybe. Dale :-) :-)
