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Frosty wrote:
I have 2, 200GB Maxtor HD's (XP Pro, yada, ") and wanna eventually
have 5.
I wuz thinkin' about a RAID but had some reservations.
I'm a-skeered that if I make one I'll lose all the data I got on the 2
now.
Is that true? Must I lost everything in order to make a RAID array?
And I wuz gonna make one of them kinda RAID's that made fer one HUGE
HD rather than redundant HD's but I hear that if one craps then I lose
everything.
What to do?
Have a decent backup scheme. You can then use RAID to give you your one
huge disk from several and it won't matter if one drive fails and you,
temporarily, lose the lot.
About 1000GB of disk will take a lot of restoring from backup. Unless
you really need it all under one drive letter, treat your drives as
independent volumes - then if one drive fails you only have to recover
the one and not the lot.
Or, combined with a decent backup scheme, you can build in some
redundancy into your RAID setup - so that it can self-recover from, say,
a single drive failure. But that is not the same as an effective backup
strategy. You could still lose the lot..all it needs is a RAID
malfunction, power supply glitch, virus, controller malfunction, fire, etc..
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Sue
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