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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Kim Holburn wrote:
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> Hard disks *will* fail.  The only question is when.
> 
>> sometimes it is the redundancy mechanism that is less reliable than  
>> the disks themselves...
> 
> 
> Everything you add makes the machine more complex and adds points of  
> failure.  Over the years I have generally found that hardware raid  was 
> a really bad idea for a number of reasons (including:
> . adding an extra hardfware point of failure,
> . having non-standard disk formats for when you have to reconstruct,
> . finding that hardware raid is much, much slower than the original  disks.
> 
> Software raid on the other hand is not so bad.
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like everything it is about risk analysis...I had my laptop stolen in
Jan 1997...so, this is of greater concern to me...

backups are another area of anecdotal jokes....
howmany people have ever tested their recovery process.

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