RAID 0 drive failures anyone?

[samooer]

I was just wondering if anyone here has encountered the zero-fault tolerance of RAID 0--where one drive crashed and the whole array got screwed.

thx.

 

[shathal]

Yes.

You need to ask?

You get 0 fault-tolerance (even a single normal drive has more chance of having data retrieved) and expect to get away with it without a problem? "Ask for troubble & you will get it".

But RAID-0 is fine as long as you do regular backups. If you don't, then I'd be more careful than go "full risk".

Hope this helps you .

 

[samooer]

i was just wondering if the performance outweighs the risk. it seems as if not too many have encountered this and people are happy with their RAID 0 setups huh?

 

[shathal]

Most ppl are quite happy with their RAID-0's - and that's OK. Just make sure that you really *DO* make regular backups, if you decide to go there. You do NOT want to be tempting fate with such things, it's a really bad idea (Murphy's law applies in its full, cruel correctness).

RAID-0 has a nifty benefits - but I'd only consider it if I know I can do the backing up too. "Just in case". You don't want to be standing before a literraly "empty" hard-drive, now do you? .

So - RAID-0 is fine, just as long as you have the means & discipline to do regular backups .

 

[AdamK47]

I've had my array of two 30GB IBM 75GXPs since last September. I've never had to reconfigure the array or do anything with it since then. I've even moved it over from a FastTrak66 to a FastTrak100 and the FastTrak100 detected the array without having to reconfigure and lose data. It has been perfect.

 

[JoeDaddy]

Just make sure, (like the people above said) that you make regular backups. I have a batch file backup my email/icq/my docs and some other important information to my data drive,(D:\Backup). Then I just add it to the Windows98/2000 Task Scheduler and have it run every morning @ 4am. That way I have a backup every morning just in case somethings happens.

I've only lost my raid 0 array once, and that was my own fault. Don't even ask.