I agree complete. If there is one thing I have an abundance of, it's hard drives. This question refers to configuring two 80 GB Seagate drives for raid 0. I'm running a 20 GB IBM drives for swap files and to store backups and a 6 GB (I don't remember the manufacture) drive encrypted with PGP for confidential information. I back up the 20 GB drive to my laptop and 6 GB drive to a couple of Jaz 2 drives.
Unfortunately even with all these backups, I just learned the hard way about the importance of manually backing up information. My laptop died, and I had to send it in for repair. HP replaced the motherboard and did a clean install on the hard drive (one copy gone). Prior to the current rebuild, I was running only one 80 GB Seagate drive. It failed, and I could not access information (two copies gone). While trying to rebuild the system, I ran FDISK to partition the drive. Unfortunately before partitioning the drive, I knocked a cable loose from the Seagate. Instead of running FDISK on the blank drive, I ran it on my back up data drive (three copies gone). Luckily, EasyRecovery was able to restore the majority of lost information, but I did lose some critical info. To add insult to injury, one of my Jaz drives took a dump, but my encrypted drive stayed intact.
I've now switched to running the two 80 GB drives as mirrors of each other, and my CDR supplier is selling a lot more blanks.
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