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Raiding hard-drives

rmg1 · 2012-07-18 11:53:21

Hi all I'm looking at installing extra hard-drives for a friend and I'm after some advice. He wants 4 (for reasons best known to himself) with the following set-up:- 2 drives striped for normal use 2 drives striped for back-up. He's also looking to mirror the first two onto the second 2. A few questions:- 1) Is this…

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bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite

19 July 2012 at 4:28PM

If his main concern is data security he doesn't need RAID at all, just make sure there's a backup every night, locate the ldf file(s) on a different disk to the mdf file(s), and make sure it's in full recovery mode.

Only need RAID if you want to minimise the risk of downtime.

Je suis Charlie.
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