desertrat58;175564 Wrote: > Before I rip over 1000 CDs, I would like to verify that my RAID 1 array > works correctly. Searches through other tech sites did not answer my > questions. As one Transporter user to other Slim Devices users, help...
I'm hoping you've read the many threads in these forums on why RAID is no substitute for a backup. I would _highly_ recommend that you use the second drive for offline backup of your files instead of as a RAID mirror. Get a decent USB or firewire enclosure for the drive and do periodic backups. If your main drive fails, you'll be just as well off - just replace the first drive with the backup one. If you decide to continue down the RAID path, I recommend that you know forwards and backwards exactly what you're doing. If you actually _do_ experience a drive failure there's a very good chance that you could hose the data on the remaining good drive. I've seen it happen more often than not. So before you begin ripping, put some test data on the array and then break it by disconnecting one drive. And then see what happens. Learn how to rebuild the array when you put a new drive back into the degraded RAID array. See what software is available for notification that the array has a bad drive - without it, you're worse off than without RAID to begin with, since you'll never know when the array is vulnerable. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32236 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
