sdds Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 can someone please clear up this RAID stuff for me. I have 2 80gig drives I wish to joint on my mac that supports RAID0 (stripping) and RAID1 (mirroring). So when using RAID0 and one drive fails, I understand you loose all data from both drives, but does this mean both are BOTH unusable when re-formated? So joining 2 80gb drives with RAID0 and backing up to a separate drive would be OK, I always have two copies of everything. Is this safe enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 With RAID0 the data is spread across the drives in such a way that if one fails, there is nothing recoverable on the other - you need both drives to use the data. If one fails you can always un-RAID, repartition and reformat the other and use it. So you do have a greater chance of losing data, so you should back up. But you gain a lot of speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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