RAID--quick, cheap, good/fast, pick all 3

[Seth Gordon]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 23:41, Rich Braun wrote:
> 
> Why RAID?  Well, it's a real time-consuming pain in the butt to reinstall a
> system from backup.  And most of us are kinda lazy about backups.  Disc drives
> are 100 times more reliable than they were 10 years ago--but do you want to
> trust everything to a drive, especially if you can have a continuous automatic
> backup with a mere 60 minutes or so of advance prep?

It seems that every time I read an introduction to RAID, the author puts
in some disclaimer to warn that RAID should not be a *substitute* for
making regular backups.

Of course, since I have neither, I shouldn't pick nits....

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