Re: S.M.A.R.T. error

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From: dmac (dmacleo_at_tds.1net)
Date: 02/15/04


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 02:45:44 -0500

thats what raid 1 is, mirrored disks.
"Jim Slager" <jslager@inameU_NO_WHATcom> wrote in message
news:eihQqJ58DHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Joe727 wrote:
> >
> > Like me, you are learning the hard way that every computer must have
> > two hard drives, one of which is dedicated to backups.
>
> Joe, I don't understand why every PC model doesn't have an option to have
> two identical drives installed at the factory with them actually as
mirrors
> so that every write goes to both and reads come from the primary drive.
If
> the primary fails then the system automatically switches over to the
> secondary and leaves a message that the owner should replace the bad disk.
> This way the user wouldn't even have to fool around with backups since it
> would be done automatically. The price of the second disk is not very
high
> nowadays.
>
>



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