Yay RAID 10! (a topic of great concern to me alone)

[hallucinosis]

Over the past few weeks, one of the Western Digital RE2 500GB drives in my RAID 10 array had been going off line periodically, forcing me to power cycle and rebuild the array. The drive finally died over the weekend. Running with 3/4 drives makes me fairly uneasy, as another drive loss could kill a lot of my free time (even though I have full

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[detaer]

I really couldn't think of why i would need a terabyte of fault tolerant data at home. I have a 1tb backup disk that I use for time machine so my work machine gets backed up and apple makes one rockin backup system so much freaking better than microsoft's vista backup solution.

My desktop at home has around 1tb of disk space that has all sorts of media files on it but if every single drive in that machine takes a crap I am not all that worried, just about everything I want can be downloaded again.

I have considered getting 2 1tb sata2 lower power consumption drives and mirroring them but the only mirroring solution I am willing to pay for offers lower fault tolerance than using a single disk. Its a bummer I can't use linux raid, I really don't trust workstation raid adapters anymore.

[hallucinosis]

Yeah, well, that's your prerogative Apple-commercial-man

[detaer]

Time machine gets everything. It is a full point in time backup. I lost the disk in my laptop probably about 6 months ago and I went to fry's picked up a new drive and did a full restore. 120gb of data on the laptop took a little while to restore but I got everything back in working order with the first reboot after.

The vista backup only keeps differentials on your user directory so if you install apps, change drivers, etc you have to do another full backup. The apple backup is a more complete backup.

[hallucinosis]

That's actually not true. Vista backup does have a full machine backup. You probably have not used it.