On Nov 6, 2005, at 20:13, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > Or get TWO of the same drives and set them up as a RAID 1 (mirror) > and NEVER worry about a hard drive going bad.
Hmm... From what I've read, this is a bad idea unless there is some need to have up-to-the-second mirroring because of running big databases which could get seriously munged by a sudden disk crash. The reasons that I've seen were convincing: there are two purposes for having personal backups - to be be able to get back to work quickly when a drive goes bad, and to back up to a good position if a piece of software or an update hoses something critical. The mirroring works fine for the first, but it fails completely on the second, because anything messed up anywhere is messed up everywhere. Just my 2? worth. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051106/490c6987/attachment.bin
