With a RAID1 it is mirrored. This means that if you write a file to 1 drive, it will be added to the other. This will protect your system from going down. If 1 drive fails, the other drive is working. This also means that if a file is downloaded and is virused, it still will affect your system :)
Brian > <What would be the point of doing a RAID with 1 drive :) You get 0 > redundency.> > > True, in theory. But suppose you are working on a 1,000 page leagl "brief", > then all of a sudden you hid a bad sector in your hard drive which causes your > document to become corrupted? > > A new question. Will the same-drive RAID help in a virus infested situation? > > For example, suppose I downloaded a Microsoft Word .doc file which contains > a macro virus. Will this Microsoft virus do the same damages on the redundent > partition? > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
