[Cialug] sata raid

[David Champion]

Thomas Kula wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:07AM -0500, dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
>> You've got a valid point. At this point in time,
>> drive failure seems to be the issue. I'm thinking
>> that hardware raid 1, combined with 2x daily data
>> backups and a weekly drive image onto a external
>> drive should minimize my downtime in the event of a
>> catastrophe. 
>>
> 
> At this point I do have to chime up and say that software
> rarely catches on fire:
> 
>  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tkula/bfs41-raid/
> 
> Not that this adds anything to the discussion. But I
> do like those pictures.
> 

Nice... a'splody raid.

p.s. Good that you said "rarely" and not "never". I've been blamed for
writing software that caused a power supply to explode once. Wouldn't
have held up in court, though.

-dc