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Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
Lon wrote
Rod Speed wrote nik Simpson wrote Bob Willard wrote With RAID-1 (mirroring) you still should do regular backups. RAID-1 only protects against failure of a HD, and supplies no protection against failures of any other piece of hardware, or glitches due to software or environment or fumble-fingers. IMHO, since the HD is one of the most reliable pieces of a PC, RAID-1 has very little value for a home. Hmm, if I look at all the hardware failures I've in the last 15 or so years, hard disks are probably the least reliable part of my desktops. I can't recall a CPU, memory, graphics card or motherboard failure in that time, maybe I'm just lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it.) Sure, but plenty get that with hard drives too. With an oddball hiccup in the measured reliability of all components in systems, working for multiple vendors, I gotta go with hard drives. This is SMD, IDE, EIDE, SCSI, FC, SATA. I include MFM, RLL, EDSI etc etc etc too. Generally anything with moving parts will be less reliable. Its much more complicated than that. Other highlights are parts where the user can get at them, plug them into something stupid, plug something stupid into them, or pour various liquids on them. And stuff that has a rather hard life like mouse cords etc. Even way back when memory errors occurred, measured over an entire install base, the memory was not that much different in reliability than the chips. Yes, but it aint just chips that matter, most obviously with the problem with electros. A few issues with UV EPROMS, but those are in the antique shop anyway. Doesnt alter that fact that plenty havent had a hard drive failure and have had other stuff fail. |
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Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
Doesnt alter that fact that plenty havent had a hard drive failure and have
had other stuff fail. Fans are also unreliable. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
Doesnt alter that fact that plenty havent had a hard drive failure and have had other stuff fail. Fans are also unreliable. I think the OP would be better off putting the raid on a server and configuring the desktop as just that -- a desktop. -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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