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To: Cormac who wrote (10627)3/6/2000 4:10:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
re: RW - does RAID provide me with enough redundancy to not have to do back ups...I really don't need everything

No. RAID protects against the failure of a harddrive in real time. RAID 1 writes files to two harddrives at the same time...it also would write a virus to both harddrives at the same time.

If you only want to do small incremental backups your LS120 should do the trick..automate it with something like Second Copy? Use Drive Image to backup your entire working system to either CD, CDRW or a second harddrive. (standard disclaimer... Make sure you keep important backup files on removable media)

The U2W controller and the two SCSI drives will cost you a bundle and you will probably only see a marginal increase in performance. IDE drives give you a lot more bang for the buck...naturally if money is not an issue SCSI should give an advantage in a multitasking environment.

A pair of IDE drives in an NT software RAID 0 configuration would probably give you better performance than your SCSI drives especially if you went with dual CPUs.

You will notice a difference with dual CPUs. You will just about always have at least a couple of tasks going at the same time. The OS is always into something in addition to the application you are running.

Zeuspaul
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