On Saturday, Apr 10, 2004, at 13:44 US/Pacific, Jason S wrote:

> If you're going with 2 hard drives anyway, get the RAID controller;
> it's even cheaper than Total Commander.  Configure the 2 drives for
> Raid 1 (mirroring).

Of course, this does little to protect your data from whole-computer
catastrophies like fire, flood, theft, nasty viruses or runaway
software, 2-year-olds, etc...  A drive identical to the one you have
your data on can hold SEVERAL backups in a non-raid configuration
(external, IDE bay, some other system...)

Raid gives you (in theory, anyway) the ability to recover more quickly,
but I don't think I believe that anything short of the multi-drive (5?)
redundant error correcting version is really very helpful.  More often,
it just doubles your chances of something going wrong (2 drives...)

BillW

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