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JonathanLH · 26-03-2007, 00:22

use raid then so that if a drive fails you don't lose everything
if you only have 2 drives of the same size, then raid 1, so they both contain a mirror of each other, most motherboards can do this.
for more than 2, raid 5 means if 1 drive goes out of your selection, you don't lose anything, just need to replace that drive so you have redundancy again, same drive size required. not many motherboards can do this, so you'd need to buy an expensive extra sata card to do this, or do it in software (if you have win2k3 anyway or various versions on linux no doubt).

26-03-2007, 00:22	#248
JonathanLH Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Grimsby, UK Age: 43 Services: NTL 10Mbit Posts: 126	Re: 20 Meg From June use raid then so that if a drive fails you don't lose everything if you only have 2 drives of the same size, then raid 1, so they both contain a mirror of each other, most motherboards can do this. for more than 2, raid 5 means if 1 drive goes out of your selection, you don't lose anything, just need to replace that drive so you have redundancy again, same drive size required. not many motherboards can do this, so you'd need to buy an expensive extra sata card to do this, or do it in software (if you have win2k3 anyway or various versions on linux no doubt).