From: /m 

On Sun, 28 May 2006 20:15:31 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>Hiya,
>
>
>I've got my first almost real server. It's running W2k3 server, and has two
>SATA disks which are configured as a RAID 1 mirror by the OS - no additional
>controller software or nothing. Works fine, but I was wondering how I'll be
>able to tell if one disk goes down? I suppose I could test it by yanking the
>plug on one of the drives, but will that break the drive? The box is not yet
>running anything too important, but it will have a lot of documents and
>backups and stuff like that, so I'd rather make sure it really survives a
>disk crasch before it's fully operational.

Redundancy != backups


Make sure you have that server in a backup scheme.

  /m

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