Gerhard,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:54:39 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Brooke Clarke wrote:
> 
>...
> > A close friend was using RAID just for backup [...]
> 
> Bad idea. RAID is not a backup replacement.
> 
> > [...] and a few months ago had a hard drive failure.  Since he makes
> > heavy use of his computer for his business this was not a good thing.  
> 
> But that's what RAID (at least RAID1) should have helped with. Why didn't
> it?

I had to read this a couple of times, because I made had the same misundestanding that you did: I think Brooke is saying that the RAID was used *only 
for backup*, that is the live disk wasn't part of the RAID, so when it failed all was lost.  All that remained was a (presumably out of date) backup 
copy on the RAID.

At least I think that's what he meant!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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