That about matches my experience. And I do have backups, of course. The
problem is the down time required to format the drives and restore. Having =
a
second server will allow me to do exactly that. And perhaps setup something
that keeps the two servers available as backup of one another.

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William "Chops" Westfield
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On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:04 PM, James Newton wrote:

> find me a genius M$ SBS 2k8 server herder and pay him or her to help
correct the "punctured strip"

I've read some reviews of RAID that claim it's not worth the trouble.
In theory, it keeps things from breaking.  In reality, it adds more things
that can break, and it breaks in incomprehensible and hard-to-fix ways.  Fo=
r
data that changes relatively slowly, a backup disk maintained by software
might work better.

BillW

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