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> I'm still baffled why no one on this list that I'm aware of uses a
> simple RAID 1 config--it would just about obviate all of the
> (hardware) failure problems I read about. What's wrong with RAID 1?
> Why not use it?
RAID 1 protects from hardware failure of the disk. It doesn't do
a bit of good to protect you from virus infections, data
corruption, fumble-fingered data destruction, etc. Backups let
you go back to before the Bad Thing happened to your data. RAID
doesn't.
Gary
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