Sorry to have missed some of the more fun stuff in between then and now, but a vacation on the coast beckoned.
Any recommendations on drive manufacturers? Maxtor used to be one of my favorites until they got bought out by Seagate (which was one of my least favorites based on a series of failures we saw in about 2 dozen Sun workstations - true, it was many years ago, but still, the memories of the early morning phone calls linger). The My World Book has 2 Western Digital drives in it (seeing how it's sold by WD). I'm assuming both drives were new, but still, one failed a bit over a year after I bought it. So, right now, WD isn't too high on my list o' favorite drives. I usually buy from local reputable stores that have been in business for a looong time and avoid Toys R' Us for my computer equipment. Larry -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:28 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Data backup question Mirroring. Data loss can happen at a lot of stages. A mirror isn't going to increase your chances of losing data in itself. He had three drives, all with the same data...seems reasonable to me. Mike On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remember there are like 7-8 types of RAIDs these days. I really can't > remember now what the OP eventually decided on. > > The RAID controller itself adds a whole separate layer of complexity > to controlling a disk, regardless if it's hard or soft. Don't forget - > while RAIDs are rebuilding, they can be subject to total data loss if > a second drive fails. Not so unlikely if it's age or a power surge > that took out the first one. > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ ** > > ************************************************************************ * > > > > > ************************************************************************ * > ** 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/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
