RAID 1 vs. No Raid

[doodoofan]

Originally Posted by Shazam

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Thanks for your suggestion. But the fact is I'm living in Vietnam and Paypal doesn't allow Vietnamese users to receive money (it's pay only method). There's no way I can receive donation. The type of my sites is not fit being hosican affiliate either.

The only way I can cover server fee is using Google ads. But I'm newbie at Google adsense and I earn not too much per month. I have 20.000+ page impressions per day and I can only earn maximum $10 / day.

[Scott]

See, $10 a day with adsense for one site to anyone here in the US is good. But since the dollar is becoming worthless to other countries, I can see why he posted a sad face.

[doodoofan]

Originally Posted by Scott

See, $10 a day with adsense for one site to anyone here in the US is good. But since the dollar is becoming worthless to other countries, I can see why he posted a sad face.

I expect to earn more since I need to upgrade to Raid 1 you know.

Btw I'm a 'she', not 'he'.

[lnxcode]

Earn more, spend more :P

[Scott]

Originally Posted by doodoofan

I expect to earn more since I need to upgrade to Raid 1 you know.

Btw I'm a 'she', not 'he'.

My apologies! Sorry.

[doodoofan]

Originally Posted by Scott

My apologies! Sorry.

No prob.

[leoleo]

Hi Guys,

I have a 100GB Internal and a 500GB External (both fairly full)

I'm going to get a 1TB external and create a 100GB partition for the boot-clone of my internal drive and use the rest of the space to put the 500GB's worth of files (and have room free - essentially REPLACING the 500GB drive which I'll sell or use for non-essential data).

My question is this:

1) Should I purchase a 2TB external RAID unit like Lacies 2BIG Triple 2GB (highly regarded unit)

OR

2) Purchase two seperate 1TB drives and have the same data on each? - was thinking pleiades enclosures - Macpower / Home / Storage Solutions / 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosures / Pleiades / Pleiades Super S-Combo


Obviously the benefit of 1) is convenience, benefit of 2) is i COULD have incremental backups - say on backup each night - the other each week so I can "rollback" if needed.

- Is RAID 1 REALLY that safe? - is there any chance of a power surge / knock to the drive etc that could destroy both drives at the same time?

- It would obviously be more of a pain organising two drives but frankly I don't want to lose my data so I'll do whatever it takes really.

Any comments / suggestions / questions most welcome.

Thanks in advance!

** Dec '06 MacBook Pro 17" / 2.33Ghz / 2GiB Ram / OSX 10.5.2 Leopard**

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by leoleo

Hi Guys,

I have a 100GB Internal and a 500GB External (both fairly full)

I'm going to get a 1TB external and create a 100GB partition for the boot-clone of my internal drive and use the rest of the space to put the 500GB's worth of files (and have room free - essentially REPLACING the 500GB drive which I'll sell or use for non-essential data).

My question is this:

1) Should I purchase a 2TB external RAID unit like Lacies 2BIG Triple 2GB (highly regarded unit)

OR

2) Purchase two seperate 1TB drives and have the same data on each? - was thinking pleiades enclosures - Macpower / Home / Storage Solutions / 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosures / Pleiades / Pleiades Super S-Combo


Obviously the benefit of 1) is convenience, benefit of 2) is i COULD have incremental backups - say on backup each night - the other each week so I can "rollback" if needed.

- Is RAID 1 REALLY that safe? - is there any chance of a power surge / knock to the drive etc that could destroy both drives at the same time?

- It would obviously be more of a pain organising two drives but frankly I don't want to lose my data so I'll do whatever it takes really.

Any comments / suggestions / questions most welcome.

Thanks in advance!

** Dec '06 MacBook Pro 17" / 2.33Ghz / 2GiB Ram / OSX 10.5.2 Leopard**

Personally I would get an external with RAID unless you have data that you wan't to lose, it would be less hassle to get 1 unit then 2 and then move the data 2x and keep it synced.... bla bla bla...

I personally think that...

[leoleo]

hey man thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it....

For convenience I completely agree but I'm paranoid that I could suffer a simultaneous disk failure if both drives are inside a single enclosure and I don't want to lose my data.


what do you think?

[GregCotton]

The chances of both drives failing at the same time are pretty low :\