On 21 Jun 2004, at 16:20, Richard Earney wrote:
It may be that it is not advised by LaCie because the BigDiscs are themselves RAIDs as far as I know. So it would not be recommended to RAID these.
Never thought of this, though the Apple rep said it would be possible as the purchase was on his advice!
Striped - is when you have several disks merged into one and data can be written across disks (so not dissimilar to what LaCie are doing).
So one file could be split between the two discs? Therefore if one disc goes down, data could be lost?
Wish I'd known in first place. I may have spent more on unique single discs.
But RAID 5 is a pretty standard way of ensuring some sort of mirror - it is used on servers round the world. So it can't be that bad! It is just advisable to use 2 separate unique Hard Drives.
If you keep 2 separate disks then some sort of mirroring app (File Synchroniser) might be an idea.
I will check this out. Many thanks.
Also keep a spare system on the second disk so you can reboot if necessary. kind regards
Again, good idea. Thanks.
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