MrSinatra;465231 Wrote: > i don't use raid to protect me from mistakes, nor is anything i'm doing > on it so critical that i need such protection. > > nor does using the raid preclude me from other backups, which i do in > fact have. the difference is i don't update those as frequently, and > having a up to moment backup is more important to me. kind of hard to > do that and have it offsite at the same time. Right. Basically RAID protects you from losing data or "uptime" if^H^H when one of the drives in the array dies. Everyone has his/her own ideas about and tolerance of relative risk. I personally prefer backups -- both onsite and offsite -- that are updated daily.
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