Gandalf Parker wrote: > Kindof along the same line and for many of the same reasons I never order a > machine, desktop or server, that doesnt come with at least 2 hard drives. At > minimum level I do compressed file backups to the other drive. Its just basic > avoid all-eggs-in-one-basket thinking. (yes there are many levels above that, > this is minimum) >
Indeed, unless you have other backups at home I recommend two distinct drives instead of a RAID-1. RAID-1 is mostly about uptime (survive a disk failure), but doesn't against a mistaken deletion. Since the home machine can usually withstand a reboot a year often the protection against deletion and the potential for having several versions of a heavily edited file is well worth skipping the RAID. > Gandalf Parker > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
