real life application Re: [G4] EIDE and Ultra ATA RAID

[Ralph Garrett]

On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> And the messages confirmed in my mind that I did the right thing in 
> recommending Raid 1 to him--there will always be a hot backup, even if 
> the controller card goes south.  In addition, I will outfit one of the 
> 5.25" face plates on the Dell box with a removable HD rack, and we 
> will get at least two 160 GB HDs (Samsungs are only about $80 each at 
> newegg.com) with cassette carriers to fit it (about $35 plus $15 per 
> carrier), so that he can do rotational/generational backups every 
> night


For that application, that is a very good configuration. Speed is not 
an issue, redundancy of data is.

Ralph