[nzlug] Raid

[Michael Field]

It has most probably been said earlier in the discussion, but a separate
backup is much better at recovering from user errors and none-disk
related system problems than RAID is. (e.g. "Oh, Did I just delete
THAT?" or bad memory causing file system corruptions)

As the saying goes, "one copy of anything is nothing when something bad
occurs". 

In RAID's case, the only bad thing you are protected against is a hard
drive failure - what about fire, flood, lightening, thieves, finger
trouble...

It makes the 200GB USB drive in the drawer at home very useful.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nzlug-bounces at linux.net.nz [mailto:nzlug-bounces at linux.net.nz] On
Behalf Of Dirk Pilat
Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2007 11:55 a.m.
To: nzlug at linux.net.nz
Subject: [nzlug] Raid

Hiho,

after the discussion about dual booting with raid/fakeraid, may I ask  
whether there is any benefit for me as a homeuser to have a raid setup?
I  
regularly backup my homefolder and the HD that contains the data
accessed  
by all my OSS's (music/movies/phothography).

What benefit would Raid give apart from extra data security (and maybe  
speed)?

Dirk


-- 
Dr Dirk Pilat
Central Medical
Oamaru

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