Re: formatting new media hard drives for multimedia

All great info., but can someone address my original questions. How
should I set up the drives?


Somewhat OT, but -

RAID1 gives you some protection against HD failure, but in a system that
has reasonable cooling, HD failure is relatively rare. RAID1 gives you
no protection against many other, more likely, causes of data loss
including: AC power line spike or brownout, flaky/undersized power supply,
loose power/signal cable, clogged filter, blown cap on MB, single-bit
error in non-ECC RAM, air conditioning failure, fire, theft, virus,
design oversight in commodity OS or app, or -- the most common of all --
fumble fingers.

Backup, backup, backup.
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Cheers, Bob

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