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Re: mirror drives

Subject: Re: mirror drives
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:22:12 -0500
From: Jeremiah Moore <>

>
> Seems like a RAID controller, a hardware one perhaps, set to mirror
> drives is the simple solution.

Trouble with any automatic mirror is that it also mirrors as your system
dies. You have two dead systems instead of one. RAID keeps everything
too closely the same.

And it definitely would not help what Rich describes.

Walt




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