05-22-2008, 08:03 PM
Quote:I don't really like built in raid for a few reasons:
1) they are software RAID systems, not a huge deal in the day and age where processor speed mostly doesn't matter, even for games.
2) Your points of failure to cause great complexity with retrieving data goes up by about a factor of *10*.
I've been reading about RAID and decided against it for much the same reasons, and the fact that you have to hope that whatever takes out one drive doesn't also kill the other. RAID offers a level of redundancy, but shouldn't be used for true backup.