Comments on: Memory Loss http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/17 Welcome to the throes of my thoughts Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rob Stevenson http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/17#comment-8 Rob Stevenson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://maize.dhs.org/wp/?p=17#comment-8 Is RAID the best way to go for circumventing HD problems? I'm wondering about the differences between having a good disk checker (to look for bad clusters, etc) and a good backup program and going with a full RAID setup. Personally I've never had a HD crash on me YET. I also don't have a good disk checker nor a backup program of any kind. I think I'm just asking for my HD to crash tonight. Now, with a RAID, if set up appropriately, you can just swap out a bad drive for a good one, lickety split. With a good backup program, reinstalling things isn't that big of a deal either. Hmmm. Of course, with a backup program you'll need some kind of media to back all your data on. CD-R's are fast becoming the "Floppy disk of the decade" since they only hold 650-700MB a piece. DVDs look to be a better solution at what, 4.7GB? Can you even buy a tape drive anymore? Would you want to? Maybe a RAID array is just what the doctor ordered. Any thoughts? Is RAID the best way to go for circumventing HD problems? I’m wondering about the differences between having a good disk checker (to look for bad clusters, etc) and a good backup program and going with a full RAID setup. Personally I’ve never had a HD crash on me YET. I also don’t have a good disk checker nor a backup program of any kind. I think I’m just asking for my HD to crash tonight.

Now, with a RAID, if set up appropriately, you can just swap out a bad drive for a good one, lickety split. With a good backup program, reinstalling things isn’t that big of a deal either. Hmmm.

Of course, with a backup program you’ll need some kind of media to back all your data on. CD-R’s are fast becoming the “Floppy disk of the decade” since they only hold 650-700MB a piece. DVDs look to be a better solution at what, 4.7GB? Can you even buy a tape drive anymore? Would you want to?

Maybe a RAID array is just what the doctor ordered.

Any thoughts?

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