[AccessD] OT: Hard Drives, RAID, backup setup

Hi Drew

> Haven't had my coffee yet, but I thought RAID 0 was a mirror, and RAID 1 was
> a stripe.  I'm a little groggy, so if you can't find it on google somewhere,
> and really want to know, I'll go look it up.

Nope - you certainly miss both the coffee and the orange juice:

  http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html

  http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-2.html

Also, RAID 0-1 and 1-0:

http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/raid10/

/gustav


> Plain mirror is RAID 1, isn't it?

> And you can always go to SATA these days, up to 8 drives on a PCI card -
> given the right PCI interface - RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD.