[amayausers.com] Re: RAID
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- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:10 UT
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What are you attempting to do? Each version of RAID does different things and
there are about 10 different versions of it plus you can combine 0+1 or other
combinations. There is also software and hardware based RAID. Software RAID is
built into Windows and free or hardware based RAID can be costly.
If your purpose is to have a copy of your data in case of a hard drive failure,
you could go with RAID 1 (mirroring) which is easy to fix, break the RAID,
replace the failed drive, and recreate the RAID. The only issue is both hard
drives must be identical. Will you be able to find that same hard drive if it
fails in 6 or 7 years? Probably not because the standard will be in Terabytes
and not gigabytes!
Like I said each RAID has positives and negatives so each one has to be looked
are carefully before implementing.
You could also take the cheap way out and buy an external storage unit for
about $100 at BestBuy. Or even a DVD-Recordable to backup your data.
I'm sure I confused some people with this but it isn't easy explaining RAID in
non-technical terms.
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