RAIID information

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Ohan Armoudian

Hi group,
We have few computers and few laptops but non of them has RAID drives in
them. We are getting (custom made) WinXP Pro, 2 drives with RAID.
The tech person explained that the drives back each other.
We will have 2 drives, 2 GB memory.......DVD player, DVD writer and the
latest Intel processor (do not know exactly...)
Thanks for the feedback (if there is any...
Thanks in advance for the reply

Ohan
 
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Hi group,
We have few computers and few laptops but non of them has RAID drives
in them. We are getting (custom made) WinXP Pro, 2 drives with RAID.
The tech person explained that the drives back each other.
We will have 2 drives, 2 GB memory.......DVD player, DVD writer and
the latest Intel processor (do not know exactly...)
Thanks for the feedback (if there is any...
Thanks in advance for the reply

Ohan
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Well, I'm not really sure what you want to know? RAID (with your description
it looks to be set to RAID-1 perhaps - mirroring is good) has a few types
that can be used. 1 and 0 are the two most common that I come across in my
travels. The following URL will give you some additional information about
the various types and they're uses.

What is RAID? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer ... :
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

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Thanks for the reply Galen.

Galen said:
In Ohan Armoudian <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


Well, I'm not really sure what you want to know? RAID (with your
description it looks to be set to RAID-1 perhaps - mirroring is good) has
a few types that can be used. 1 and 0 are the two most common that I come
across in my travels. The following URL will give you some additional
information about the various types and they're uses.

What is RAID? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer ... :
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
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Ohan said:
Hi group,
We have few computers and few laptops but non of them has RAID drives
in them. We are getting (custom made) WinXP Pro, 2 drives with RAID.
The tech person explained that the drives back each other.
We will have 2 drives, 2 GB memory.......DVD player, DVD writer and
the latest Intel processor (do not know exactly...)
Thanks for the feedback (if there is any...
Thanks in advance for the reply
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If you will be using the drives to "back each other [up], you are talking
about RAID 0, otherwise called mirroring.

You want feedback? Comments on that approach?

Mirroring is *not* suitable for using as backup. Mirroring is a technique
used for a situation in which downtime can't be tolerated. If, for example,
you're running an airline reservation system, you don't have time to restore
backups; the customer goes elsewhere while you restore. Raid 0 creates a
mirrored drive and lets the computer automatically and
seamlessly change to using the mirror drive if the primary one fails. When
you mirror, you still need a separate backup, because relying on a mirror
leaves you vulnerable to most of the common dangers to your drive(s), such
as severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, virus attacks, even
theft of the computer.

Secure backup needs to be on media stored externally to the computer. For
really secure backup (needed, for example, if the life of your business
depends on your data) there should be multiple copies of the media, with at
least one copy stored off-site.
 
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