Re: RAID1

From: "John Harris" <johnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:38:46 +1200

Think very carefully about not wanting to spend the money. I am currently
assisting a client with software RAID where one disk has physically failed.
He now cannot boot the server at all and he has 5 years of programming data
that he cannot access. worse still, his backup has not been working for
over a year but he has been changing the tapes every day!

Hardware RAID would not suffer this problem unless the controller itself
failed (very rare)

--
John Harris (Harry)
Computer Troubleshooters - Hornby
Christchurch
New Zealand

"Joshua Bolton" <JoshuaBolton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BEA1E5D2-83F0-4C1A-9679-1F38D03EC08E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is the 2nd disk blank? No partitions?

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