----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" : 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? : : I frequently replace one drive in a RAID 5 array with no loss of data to : my Customer. that's striped and mirrored - different animal. It really pays for people to know the difference though as many an unsuspecting person has lost the lot through the wrong raid configuration, not being aware that when they insisted their computer guy set them up on a really fast raid array "cause they're doing imaging work" that the raid they get is striped (eek!) k
