[TheForge] A little help please [OT]

[Justin Fellenz]

Right you are, Gabriel. It's all a game of risk v reward. I run raid on
my home server with a good UPS and don't bother backing up
systematically because I figure it's not likely both drives will die at
the same time. But a good lightning storm could prove me wrong....

J

--- Gabriel Cain <gabriel at dreamingcrow.com> wrote:

> Justin Fellenz wrote:
> > Lynn,
> > 
> > You might also consider runnig two drives in parallel, using a RAID
> > (redundant array of inexpensive disks) card. They're pretty cheap
> now
> > (like $60) as are disks, and then you dont have to back anything up
> or
> > lose what you saved since the last backup. It's easier than it
> sounds
> > and it's a slick solution. Happy to provide more info if you like>.
> 
> RAID is no panacea.  You still have to perform backups.  It's merely
> the
> case that you're /less/ likely to have a catastrophic data loss
> event.  They
> don't go away, only lessen.
> 
> I do highly recommend a RAID-1 setup, tho. ( RAID level 1 is a
> mirrored disk
> set; both disks get writes of all the data.  Other levels include
> level 0 -
> striping, which increases performance, but also increases risk.  And
> there's
> RAID 5; more than 2 disks, more data integrity, greater disk space,
> but
> slightly less performance (like raid-0)).
> 
> Gabriel,
> who is a systems administrator in real life. :)
> 
> 
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