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RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
> I just wanted to note that RAID 0 is, in most cases, a bad idea.
> The reason
> is that if you stripe your data across multiple disks and one fails, you
> lose all the data. It's better to split the files up among many, smaller
> logical drives. It's great from a performance standpoint but that's about
> it. RAID 0+1 or RAID 5 are much better ideas.
>
> Paul Wilson
I disagree that it's a bad idea. It's no more "unsafe" than a single disk.
MTBF is NOT additive. RAID 0 IS the fastest, and if that's what you need,
then it's a good idea.
Also, if you are using it as a data store, which is typically what RAID is
used for, instead of a main system disk, then you SHOULD be backing up.
I have dozens of hard disks in my multiple machines, and haven't had a
failure in years, and they are on 24/7/365. The MTBF of the drives is far
less than the next technology leap that I replace the disks for anyway.
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