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Re: VMware instead of Multi-Boot Loaders?
« on: December 16, 2008, 11:16:27 AM »
The main reason for doing a RAID is reliability, if one or two disks fail you information is still secure.  A two drive RAID makes no sense, you can't do striping or have a spare hard disk and any RAID features would involve a decrease in what is a tiny amount of storage space to begin with.

Now if you had say 7 or so 300 GB you could construct a relatively reliable 1.5 TB RAID.  But you don't.  Also it appears you are the only user.  RAIDs are most useful in systems that get a lot of access from a lot of users.
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Re: VMware instead of Multi-Boot Loaders?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2008, 03:43:44 PM »
Agreed, my home server has just under a TB of stuff stored on it and I'd be lost without it. The time to think about back up is before you have hardware failure.   For most people a cheap external disk and strategic backup to DL DVD is all they really need.  


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