Re: Is RAID 1 enough?
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:50:45 -0500
Sternkreuzer wrote:
I am considering putting RAID 1 on the new machine I am building,
with XP Pro.
Reading the documentation on the Intel motherboard it seems one
needs to do the <F6> tinkering with the BIOS at the very beginning
of the installation of XP Pro.
I like the RAID 1 concept, but what happens if the motherboard
fails? Is there a danger of losing all the data on the mirrored
disks after replacing the motherboard? It seems one would have to
go through the <F6> procedure again so the motherboard accepts a
RAID configuration. Does that force a Clean Install??
A combination of any true raid (RAID0 is merely striping - JBOD) with
consistent scheduled external backups is the best assurance against data
loss and long rebuild times.
I don't like RAID1 because it only gives protection against catastrophic
*instant* failure of the first hard disk drive. If your computer gets
messed up in the way computers normally do (software/human intervention) -
that probably got replicated to the second drive and thus - you still lost
anything not backed up externally. ;-)
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Shenan Stanley
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