Err, no. RAID1 simply writes two copies simultaneously. It protects you against hard-disk failure, but if you delete something, it deletes both copies simultaneously. Mirroring gives you a buffer -- an hour, a day, a week -- during which you can find and correct your mistake.
Yeah; if I could afford six drives instead of three (or 12 smaller ones for three RAID5 arrays), that's what I'd do.
At some point I may move my main (daily) mirror to another machine, or I may just add another somewhere.
I don't mirror the laptops: sync what I need from the fileserver, work a little, and sync back what I've changed. Usually with version control, though it's impractical and unnecessary for audio. Hardly any permanent state.
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Date: 2007-10-06 02:29 pm (UTC)Yeah; if I could afford six drives instead of three (or 12 smaller ones for three RAID5 arrays), that's what I'd do.
At some point I may move my main (daily) mirror to another machine, or I may just add another somewhere.
I don't mirror the laptops: sync what I need from the fileserver, work a little, and sync back what I've changed. Usually with version control, though it's impractical and unnecessary for audio. Hardly any permanent state.