Repeat after me: "RAID is *not* a Backup solution". "Do not want to lose the family photos and videos" Therefore you need *backup*, not RAID. Sorry.
Why? Because if your little lovely child clicks delete on the directory that contains your family photos and videos, RAID or not, they're gone. The purpose of RAID1 is for quick hardware replacement, when resource availability becomes a necessity (generally not for a home media center, but for a company LDAP server, for exemple), and also, with good RAID controllers (hardware or software) it improves I/O perfs on reads. RAID1 does not goes beyond this functionality AFAIK. So you should think of a flexible backup solution (simply, I use rsync on some folders and I have an external USB drive that I never moves, to mitigate failures due to transportation), rather than thinking of implementing RAID1. Cheers, Sylvain On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM, P.V.Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thinking of having a media center plus would want to surf the net on the > plasma tv. > > Was looking at Dell Inspiron Zino HD. Unfortunately it comes with Windows. > Tried asking them to sell without Windows but they are not willing. > > http://www1.ap.dell.com/sg/en/home/desktops/inspiron-zino-hd/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-zino-hd&s=dhs&cs=sgdhs1 > > Is there any other brand or models that has similar specs with the Zino. The > most important is the ablity to install or connect two 3.5 sata hard drives. > The reason for that is so that the hard disk can be software raid 1. Do not > want to lose the family photos and videos. > > Any suggestions for small hardware? Going to install Fedora 12. > > P.V.Anthony > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
