Basic RAID is writing the data to two drives. If it is important stuff and one drive fails you have a copy on the other so it isn't lost.
Bob
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:47 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
w8imo@xxxxxxxx wrote:But using two drives doubles the chance of a failure!
Even though hard drive technology and reliability have greatly improved I personally don't like really big, like 1TB, hard drives because if you lose it you've lost a lot. I prefer smaller drives even if it means two or three.
A single big drive has pretty much always been more reliable than multiple smaller drives.--
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