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>> I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was |
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>> planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love |
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>> RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily |
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>> backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in |
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>> the event of theft or fire which RAID1 doesn't. |
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>> If one hard drive dies in a RAID1 array, does the system keep running? |
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>> If so, that's good, but there are so many other components that could |
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>> die. In 15 years I've lost the power supply, video card, modem, |
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>> motherboard, and CPU, but never a hard drive. With all these |
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>> potential points of failure, how much greater system reliability do |
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>> mirrored hard drives really offer? |
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> In fifteen years I've lost roughly fifteen hard drives and one power supply. |
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> Hard drives have moving parts and that equals failures. Congratulations on |
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> being lucky, though you have wonder why so many thing that don't normally |
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> have issues are having issues in your system. :-) |
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Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? |
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I actually did lose one or two laptop hard drives now that I think |
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about it. The other stuff: |
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power supply - cheapness |
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video cards - heat |
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modem - lightning |
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motherboard and CPU - overclocking (never again) |
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- Grant |
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