>> I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was >> planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love >> RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily >> backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in >> the event of theft or fire which RAID1 doesn't. >> >> If one hard drive dies in a RAID1 array, does the system keep running? >> If so, that's good, but there are so many other components that could >> die. In 15 years I've lost the power supply, video card, modem, >> motherboard, and CPU, but never a hard drive. With all these >> potential points of failure, how much greater system reliability do >> mirrored hard drives really offer? > > In fifteen years I've lost roughly fifteen hard drives and one power supply. > Hard drives have moving parts and that equals failures. Congratulations on > being lucky, though you have wonder why so many thing that don't normally > have issues are having issues in your system. :-)
Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? I actually did lose one or two laptop hard drives now that I think about it. The other stuff: power supply - cheapness video cards - heat modem - lightning motherboard and CPU - overclocking (never again) - Grant
