In my part of the IT world I would choose neither. I don't believe that any data should reside on the PC. All data should be in a central location that is under DR, HA, redundancy and backup/restore control of an IT team(s). If a PC goes bye bye, it gets rebuilt or restreamed on next boot. Group Policy or other methods are used to connect the user with their data and the user should care less if "their" PC gets rebuilt or restreamed on a reboot.
Just my $0.02US worth Thanks Webster From: Pierre-Marie Camilleri [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Advice re Workstation Backup Solution Hi everyone I'm currently about to replace a number of old XP workstations with Windows 7 workstations. I am currently looking at two options in order for me to be able to recover the workstation from a hard disk failure. Option 1 - Have a second drive installed on which to store the backups of the primary hard disk. Acronis would be used to perform the scheduled backups. Option 2 - Have the workstation configured with RAID 1 so that in the event of a hard disk failure the user can continue working. Which option would you recommend that I choose? With option 1 I would have the additional expense of having to purchase an Acronis license for each workstation. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
