4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
8:31 a.m.
>Hmm. I wonder how feasible it would be to place
two sets of disparate
>platters inside a single 3.5" form factor drive and have mirroring or RAID
>handled internally.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, John Foust wrote:
The point of RAID is to save your data when a drive
fails.
If the logic board goes, or especially the motor fails,
you're out of luck.
I agree, the slight increase in complexity of two physical drives
is vastly offset by the increase in reliability. YOu have to look at
what fails -- and it's the rotating junk that dies, not as often the
electronics.
For classicmp, how about off-machine rsync copies?
Even a simplistic 2nd internal drive and a cron rsync drive 1
to drive 2 gets you a lot of results for little effort.
Personally, I'd go RAID5 and a second machine outside the datacenter both.