<quote who="Jason Lim"> > > It's called RAID-1. > > I dunno... whenever I think of "RAID" I always think of live mirrors that > operate constantly
That's what they do post-sync. > and not a "once in a while" mirror operation just to > perform a backup (when talking about RAID-1). Am I mistaken in this > thinking? That's what they do when they sync (in very rough terms). > This would cause the 2 live HDs to be mirrored to the backups, and then > disengage the 2 "backup" HDs so they aren't constantly synced. > > Would the above work? Sorry if I seem naive, but I haven't tried this > "once in a while" RAID method before. It's a dirty hack to make it do what you want it to, that's all. Russell's solution was better, as at least you were getting the benefit of the running mirror if a drive failed (and buying three disks is not expensive). - Jeff -- "And up in the corporate box there's a group of pleasant thirtysomething guys making tuneful music for the masses of people who can spell "nihilism", but don't want to listen to it in the car." - Richard Jinman, SMH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]