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!LittleDragon · 12-14-2009, 10:09 PM

Just a heads up... RAID is NOT for backup, it's there to increase uptime in case of a single drive failure. Any file corruption will be duplicated in real time over to the mirror drive. A deleted file on a RAID is still a deleted file, there's no backup.

I have a hard drive dock and two 1TB drives, it runs a file sync once a day. I switch between the two drives whenever I remember to and I keep one at work in case of fire at home.

12-14-2009, 10:09 PM	#18
!LittleDragon "They call me Bowser...RawR!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Vancouver Posts: 8,337 Thanked 1,047 Times in 416 Posts Failed 60 Times in 31 Posts	Just a heads up... RAID is NOT for backup, it's there to increase uptime in case of a single drive failure. Any file corruption will be duplicated in real time over to the mirror drive. A deleted file on a RAID is still a deleted file, there's no backup. I have a hard drive dock and two 1TB drives, it runs a file sync once a day. I switch between the two drives whenever I remember to and I keep one at work in case of fire at home. __________________ "Damn fine car Dodge... Ran over me wife with a Dodge!", Zeke Last edited by !LittleDragon; 12-15-2009 at 11:06 PM.