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Re: Good RAID for New Desktop Machine?

 
 
Maxim S. Shatskih
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      9th Apr 2008
> With RAID-1 (mirroring) you still should do regular backups. RAID-1
> only protects against failure of a HD, and supplies no protection
> against failures of any other piece of hardware, or glitches due to
> software or environment or fumble-fingers.


For me, most of the on-mobo RAIDs are notorious for such glitches, which
sometimes kill all disks.

So, probably they actually decrease reliability and not increase it.

Backups are the way to go.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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