So literally During the same week I told someone in here about my raid setup on my MacBook pro, and how it was so stable, I end up getting a disc failure…
It wasn’t so much because the raid, it was more because I had the disc spinning vigirously and ended up closing it shut and shaking it up (from picking it up and putting it in my bag).
So now of corse I have a dead drive, meaning tHat the whole raid is fuc***d, and don’t know how to save it. I currently have the drive in the freezer hopes it gets works long enough to back up. But I really need to get my info off of there.
I got about a years worth of stuff on that that isn’t backed up. All my newest sets, and sets for upcoming gigs, my tsptutor stuff, all my marketing materials for my clients, etc.
I think you are confused on what RAID is. If a disk fails it should keep running… thats the whole point. Or you’re just calling something RAID that isn’t actually RAID.
Correct, RAID 0. Which is actually not a valid type of RAID. Why go through the trouble of setting up a RAID configuration when losing 1 disk is catastrophic…
+1
So many people see RAID and assume that it means that their data is backed up. RAID (valid levels above 1) provide protection against disk failures, but it is never a substitute for backups.