The point I was making was that I believe RAID 1 to be a performance improvement.
If there are reliablility improvements, then for me that is irrelevant. And I agree, certainly no replacement for a decent backup strategy. C. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Monday, 30 March 2009 11:50 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] new PC Rather than RAID I tend to take a more minimal approach - reliable laptop, no RAID, and image the entire HD to an external disk regularly. Can use Acronis, Ghost, or Drive Snapshot. I figure the downtime replacing a single HD in a lpatop is going to be a few hours minimum no matter how its done. Note the interesting part is restoring drive C if needed, I use a WAIK boot DVD to do that. Works very well, only trick is that Microsoft make it as difficult as possible to get this free dowload because they don't want too many to get hold of it obviously. But its the best way I know to easily access external disks if your HD windows is stuffed, or need to reinstall working windows over a factory image recovery. (The steps are roughly: 1 - find the download 2 - download a disk image 990MB 3 - Burn to a DVD/CD 4 - run the DVD installer to install WAIK 5 - use arcane command line options to create a bootable command line Vista DVD simple really... ). John _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
