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> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Moose
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:41 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Notes on Upgrading - II - Disks - and a question
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > RAID is protection against electrical or mechanical failure of the
> > drive. But I think it's much more likely that you'll have a software
> or
> > virus related failure and the RAID solution simply guarantees that
> > you'll propagate the problem (which could include deletion or
> corruption
> > of lots of data) to both copies.
> >
> Well, I've never had such a problem, but I just had a new HD fail a few
> days ago. Also, I sit behind both router and software (not Windoze)
> firewalls and have AV running all the time.
>
> In any case, my strategy is dual, with one internal mirror and a
> second,
> external backup, although I'm not sure how to make the external drive
> bootable. I don't have Seagate drives for the simple reason that their
> seek time specs are poorer than the WDs at the moment. Whether that has
> any practical effect I don't know, but I don't have their backup
> software. I suppose any sort of mirroring software might work with an
> eSATA connection, as it looks just like an internal connection to the
> software. One more thing to find out about. :-(
>
> Moose
>
Specs aren't everything. The Seagate 750GB drives are the fastest I own.
Their density allows for a performance beyond seek times. The throughput is
amazing.
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