05-14-2009
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Guanaco
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Re: Suggest a graphics card
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Originally Posted by swampler
Actually, yes. If your 2 identical drives have a 1 in a 100 chance of going bad, the odds of either of the 2 going bad is 2 in a 100. And since the data is striped, if EITHER drive goes out, you lose everything.
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Striping is dangerous for critical data... so get two 74gb 10000rpm WD Velociraptor HDDs, stripe them and just load programs on them. Then get two 1TB drives, put them in RAID and use that for storage. |
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