rja.carnegie (9/14/2009)

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I'm trying to visualise your home user community and your function in it... and I think home Windows licences that come with the PC usually aren't transferable to other...

I was going to say that I wasn't sure my vote counted, since I play a dual role of software developer and dba, and I only do the dba until...

I wouldn't count on that. As studies have shown, the idea that drive failures are...

Nadrek (9/2/2009)

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Pure software RAID-5/6 with Linux is very cheap, and more complex than I personally want to spend time on.

Pure software RAID-1 with Linux I'm planning on playing with as...

Steve Jones - Author (2009/08/21)

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Do you use RAID at home?...Our data is important to us, and we want to be sure it's backed up and protected. So far I have...

Mark Horninger (9/1/2009)

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I don't know that I would agree raid is that hard to set up - Mirroring is raid 1, and that's usually pretty simple to set up. ...

SQAPro (8/31/2009)

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If we get back to the original question of 'do you use raid at home' and the subject of some kind of redundant storage for the average home user...

I see a lot of folks here bashing a guy for standing up for Linux against a crack-pot zealot. Any reason y'all are ganging up?

I'm not saying either side...

A true *nix geek could probably come up with something similar, but I'm not sure it would be as space efficient in terms of the storage use, nor do I...

jeff (8/21/2009)

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...I thought RAID would be a good safeguard - basically I thought it would be quick recovery in most cases, and thus sufficient when supplemented by occasional backups to...

Jon Monahan (8/21/2009)

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I have two external hard drives that I back up to. One I keep in a fireproof box in the house, the other in a safety deposit box...

:blush: Oh, the stories I could tell....

Thank you for the clarification. I knew I had...

Clearly, I'm missing something. Either that, or I'm horribly spoilt. Just for clarification, we're talking about playing around on a development computer. A computer, disk (or disk...

I ran into this article (http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7690) and immediately recognized the potential applications here. Thought other readers might find this interesting.