Re: RAID array for home

In article <1i5931v.1o513sbl915ybN%me@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xmas
<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Redundancy is more important to me than speed, so I am now pondering
RAID 1 as the better option. It's a pity that people's experiences of
it here seem that it's not that reliable.

I think it's a case of you get heat you pay for. I've used RAID1 and
RAID5 extensively in a variety of environments, in dedicated server
machines (HP Proliants with Smart Array controllers) and with cheapy
add-in cards in desktop PCs.

The RAID in the enterprise-grade kit do what they say on the tin; the
add-in RAID1 on one desktop machine let me down badly when one disk went
offline then back online, and the array software decided to rebuild.
Unfortunately, it rebuilt the bad disk onto the good one, trashing all
the data. Just as well I had tape backups.

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