RAID is important on high-access servers like retail websites or application
servers.
I cannot conceive of a reason you would want RAID otherwise.
But then, my conceiver has been in the shop for a while...
Ellen H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wosnick" <mwosn...@rogers.com>
To: <COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:33 PM
Subject: [CGUYS] Primer on RAID
Hi all,
I will be taking delivery of a new Intel i7-920 Win 7 PC shorty and it
will come with 12 G of DDRR3 RAM and a 1TB HD to which I intend to add a
2nd 1TB drive that I just bought for a PC that is no longer going to be
used.
I have never used any RAID or similar configuration and am wondering what
are the pros and cons.
This is a home machine and in the past when I had multiple disks I always
backed up my critical data and media etc from my "main" drive manually to
one of the other physical disks, on the premise that, unless there was a
fire and the whole computer melted, the odds of 2 physical drives failing
at the same time are infinitesimally small.
But with 2 really large drives, and a lot of RAM and a very fast machine
coming, I am wondering if I should be using a RAID configuration, and if
so, what advantages or disadvantages does that bring.
Advice is welcome.
Michael
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