Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

[Tom Jennings]

> >Hmm.  I wonder how feasible it would be to place two sets of disparate
> >platters inside a single 3.5" form factor drive and have mirroring or RAID
> >handled internally. 

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, John Foust wrote:
> The point of RAID is to save your data when a drive fails.
> If the logic board goes, or especially the motor fails, 
> you're out of luck.

I agree, the slight increase in complexity of two physical drives
is vastly offset by the increase in reliability. YOu have to look at
what fails -- and it's the rotating junk that dies, not as often the
electronics. 

For classicmp, how about off-machine rsync copies? 

Even a simplistic 2nd internal drive and a cron rsync drive 1
to drive 2 gets you a lot of results for little effort.

Personally, I'd go RAID5 and a second machine outside the datacenter both.