karl shah-jenner wrote:
be aware though that RAID can mean striped, mirrored or striped and mirrored. Mirrored is fine but it's basically copying to two hard drives at once, striped is dangerous as all hell - you lose one drive and that's that.. everything's gone
Huh?
This is not quite right.
I frequently replace one drive in a RAID 5 array with no loss of data to my Customer.
Bob
