Raid one

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:37 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I am beginning to wonder if raid-1 is what I need.
>>     
>
> RAID is generally used because of a need, rather than simply because you
> can do it.  Of course, if you're doing this as a learning exercise,
> that's another matter.
>
> Some benefits of RAID, depending on the type, *can* be faster access to
> data spread over more than one drive (though your current system might
> be more than fast enough, making this pointless), or having a spare
> drive that *can* let you keep on working when one drive has failed
> (mirroring - useful for servers, probably less important for stand alone
> client machines in the home), or increased storage space by using an
> array of drives as if they were one big one (which can also be done
> using LVM).
>
>   
    No my need is to have a backup in case this hard drive quits 
working. I can do this with rsync. But I am getting the data needed to 
make a raid-1 and it would be fun to make one just for the experience :-)



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