[BC] RAID servers

[towers at mre.com]

On our HP file servers, we tried RAID 1 (mirrored). We lost a drive and
the machine became a door stop when we tried to install a new drive and
have it reformat. It took a complete reload of the OS and reconfigure to
bring it back to life.

RAID isn't all it's cracked up to be when used as a C drive......

MM

 >> RAID works wonders in preventing many situations like this.  That still
 >> is
 >> not an excuse for proper backups though to protect from a controller
 >> failure, or the machine bursting into flames, etc.
 >>
 >> B
 >
 > them with one being off site. So, RAID prevents downtime on a drive
 > failure, but, in my application, seems more trouble than it's worth. At
 > work, though, we're working on digital cinema servers and need RAID to get
 > the required throughput. That's not my department, though...
 >
 > Harold