Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : astark
From : Belly
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 03:15 pm

  Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: astark to Belly on Thu Aug 19 2004 07:12 pm

 >  Be> One more note of interest: IF YOU'RE RUNNING A RAID-0 ARRAY MAKE SURE
 >  Be> YOUR BACKUPS ARE RUNNING :)  Shortly the server on the other end died,
 >  Be> one of the drives in my striped array bit the dust. Boy was I pissed. I
 >  Be> found a disk cloning utility which was persistent in retrying read
 >  Be> errors and managed to copy the failing drive onto a good one... I put
 >  Be> the new drive back in the array, but lost/corrupted lots of songs.
 > Ouch! This is what I am going to be trying to get away from =)

Just a note: In case this or something similar happens to you, the doggedly
persistent program I used was called 'Partition Saving'... Free software, and
it's on the Ultimate Boot CD.  If you've never experienced the UBCD, you don't
know what you're missing. Check it out:

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/


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