Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/11/14

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Subject: [Leica] Drive question.
From: red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 06:52:23 -0800
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Why bother with RAID arrays' complexity when a simple ROBOCOPY program and a 
secondary external HDD ( or 2 or 3) provides the same level of backup? 
I realize that the backup is not instantaneous and in real time, but once or 
twice a day should suffice for most applications.....

Seriously, what benefit is the RAID array?

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

I?ve gone to RAID-1 for my own personal NAS at home (and I use ZFS to ensure 
data integrity for you geeks). I only get 50% utilization but at least I can 
be sure that at least one copy will be usable after an HDD failure. I?ve had 
at least 1 HDD fail and 2 HDD go flakey on me over the last year or 2. 
Always just past the end of the warranty period. 

Regards,
Spencer
Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Drive question.)
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