Re: RAID array for home

Dave Wade wrote:

Having spent a couple of evenings trying to sort out an issue with a RAID1 array on a friends machine, can I echo the "don't do it". I don't think most
of the desktop raid cards have the quality of software thats needed for reliable performance.

That matches my experience of the three RAID-1 failures I've had to recover. One problem is that sudden death is a relatively uncommon HD failure mode, and the desktop RAID controllers don't seem to deal well with (or even detect) dying drives.

RAID-1 isn't entirely useless but it's not an automatic win over using a separate backup drive.


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John Jordan
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