Oh, yes, redundancy, not striping - raid 1. Been a while since thinking about raid, opps.

One goes boom, the system still boots and has a copy of your stuff, hopefully telling you in a useful way to replace the one that died. Expect the ssd to die.

That asus laptop with the uefi bios actually shipped with 2x 256gb ssd's in raid-0 oddly, so one dies, it all goes poof. Weird to see that on a consumer device, but I redid it as redundant raid-1. My current dell latitude

-mb


On 04/19/2016 12:39 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
On 2016-04-19 10:15, Michael Butash wrote:
[snippage]
WD Black 7200 Rpm 1TB DATA drive
See above, spinners die too.  Raid-0 any volume set imho.

I Think You Meant "RAID-1". Specifically, software RAID-1 so you can use the array with any motherboard. The 0 in RAID-0 is your % chance of recovering data from an array with a single-disk failure :-)

Consider just getting an external nas like Synology or Drobo to keep
data on, backups, etc.  I just keep os disks in my system, and
consider that disposable as a /tmp drive.

This may help, but storage media of all types can fail--usually at the least convenient moment. Regular backups to something offline (USB disk, DVD-R, BD-R, tape ...) are the best way to prevent actual data loss. 2 USB disks of sufficient size, rotated periodically, with a small shell script that mounts the disk, rsyncs the dirs you care about to the disk, and umounts the disk is a fairly convenient and fast way to do this. (Initial sync takes forever, but later syncs should be much faster.) Unfortunately, USB disks are not $0.


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