Oh, yes, redundancy, not striping - raid 1. Been a while since thinking
about raid, opps.
One goes boom, the system still boots and has a copy of your stuff,
hopefully telling you in a useful way to replace the one that died.
Expect the ssd to die.
That asus laptop with the uefi bios actually shipped with 2x 256gb ssd's
in raid-0 oddly, so one dies, it all goes poof. Weird to see that on a
consumer device, but I redid it as redundant raid-1. My current dell
latitude
-mb
On 04/19/2016 12:39 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2016-04-19 10:15, Michael Butash wrote:
> [snippage]
>>> WD Black 7200 Rpm 1TB DATA drive
>> See above, spinners die too. Raid-0 any volume set imho.
>
> I Think You Meant "RAID-1". Specifically, software RAID-1 so you can
> use the array with any motherboard. The 0 in RAID-0 is your % chance
> of recovering data from an array with a single-disk failure :-)
>
>> Consider just getting an external nas like Synology or Drobo to keep
>> data on, backups, etc. I just keep os disks in my system, and
>> consider that disposable as a /tmp drive.
>
> This may help, but storage media of all types can fail--usually at the
> least convenient moment. Regular backups to something offline (USB
> disk, DVD-R, BD-R, tape ...) are the best way to prevent actual data
> loss. 2 USB disks of sufficient size, rotated periodically, with a
> small shell script that mounts the disk, rsyncs the dirs you care
> about to the disk, and umounts the disk is a fairly convenient and
> fast way to do this. (Initial sync takes forever, but later syncs
> should be much faster.) Unfortunately, USB disks are not $0.
>
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