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Dell to sell Home user PC's with Mirrored drives (RAID 1)

Capt'n Midnight · 2005-10-26 20:56:45

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/26/dell_back_up/ it's in the US only. IMHO it says more about the poor reliabilty of Hard Drives than anything else. Failure rates seem just as high as they were 20 years ago.

26-10-2005 8:56pm

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/26/dell_back_up/

it's in the US only.
IMHO it says more about the poor reliabilty of Hard Drives than anything else. Failure rates seem just as high as they were 20 years ago.

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They offer it at the moment too.

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#3 26-10-2005 9:45pm

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Hard drives are still mechanical.
When, oh when will they invent a viable digital medium!?

That being said, I've never had a HDD crash on me, although it could be cos I'm a bit of a light/medium user...

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as i'm finding out tonight, Raid 1 still can't stop some people from destroying their computers. Just means a whole load of spyware/viruses/deleted sytem files x2

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#5 26-10-2005 10:17pm

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K.O.Kiki wrote:

Hard drives are still mechanical.
When, oh when will they invent a viable digital medium!?

That being said, I've never had a HDD crash on me, although it could be cos I'm a bit of a light/medium user...

I've posted two on the scsi thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=316618
a flash drive = safe when no power
a ram drive = safe while the battery lasts when no power

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