Actually I don't think this is right. Hardware RAID does crc on the data, so corruption is almost impossible, the RAID would drop the bad drive off if it started returning errors. Of course this is moo as joey says if he is doing soft RAID. So the question is...hard or soft?
Mike On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So would you recommend this pair of hard drives be setup as a RAID? Or > >at least 2 independent hard drives? I sort of like the idea of keeping > >one drive (or one pair of drives) off site. > > You want the two drives decoupled. RAID would immediately copy an error > from one drive to the other -- not what you want. I rotate three drives, > always keeping one off site. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
