I thought the whole point to RAID drives was to allow for the loss of a drive without compromising the stored data. -dan c. At 11:52 AM 12-03-05 -0500, Bob wrote: >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 > >
