Blake wrote:
What I normally do (rather than using RAID) is copy stuff to another hard-drive. I don't know of many people with good experiences using RAID. (And one of them--RAID0?--appears to be some sort of practical joke.<s>)
Same here, although I do automate it using rsync (see: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ for some cunning ideas).
My logic is that if a disk fails I'm going to be faffing about with screwdrivers and things to replace it, so the added effort of restoring from a backup on another drive is minor in comparison. The main advantage of rotating backups over RAID is that it covers all manner of human error (RAID will flawlessly duplicate your accidental deletions across the drives), which I consider to be as if not more likely than hardware failure.
In an ideal world you could of course combine the two, until the noise, heat and electricity bill drives you insane :)
kim.
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