Thank you for your replies. I may have to rethink my back-up strategy. I may just make both HDs seperate volumes (I: and J: in my case) and do manual/scheduled back-ups from one to the other. Or maybe put one HD into an external enclosure.
I can swear I saw an external 500gb HD advertised for $150 somewhere -- might just buy one and keep both internals as seperate volumes. I can always rip my DVDs as well (legal issues aside). Plus the music collection becomes portable. However, since I've gone this far, I have a few more RAID questions/comments, as an exercise in intellectual curiosity. (1) To check if data is on both HDs, can I simply "delete RAID set" in the bios. According to my controller card manual, the data remains intact and accessible on both drives. Can I then simply reset the RAID set through the bios after I verify, or would the PC then expect to see blank discs to format? (2) If I simply disconnect data and power cables to one HD, and keep the bios set to RAID 1, wouldn't the PC then assume a HD crash and tell/ask me if I want to rebuild the array? Could I then assume data had been written to both drives? (3) The controller card manual tells me how to tell the bios to rebuild the mirrored set, but I don't see any kind of signal that tells me a HD has crashed. Would the bios or WinXP signal me somehow? (4) Re RAID 1. I understand RAID 0 (striping) is not a back-up system, but isn't RAID 1 (mirroring) considered back-up? I understand it is used mainly in servers to eliminate down-time. Do servers have seperate HDs to which data is backed-up to seperately, in addition to the HDs in RAID arrays? Just some questions, if anyone has the time to answer. I think you guys sold me on seperate volumes. This appears to be a KISS (keep it simple Squeezeboxer) situation. -- desertrat58 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ desertrat58's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9431 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32236 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
