From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I think IDE and SATA RAID controllers are quite cheap - I'm thinking about
getting one for my home system, because I do a lot of programming in it and
would hate to lose even a days work if a hd crashes.


Antti Kurenniemi
(...but I agree, it would be nice to be able to do it with software as well
- one less piece of hw to break down)

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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>> >server allows you to do mirroring and raid 5. workstation only allows
>> striping
>>
>> Ah ha.  Almost worth the playing with, then.
>
> They really should have enabled mirroring on workstations, with the price
> of
> drives vs tape backup it would have been a nice option for important home
> machines.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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