Okay. Here's what i'd do if you're wanting this RAID system to help redundancy AND be a backup. Firstly, be sure to use a physical RAID card. Don't trust it to software, you're just asking for more problems than necessary (although the motherboard controlled RAID's all right for home use). Secondly you should buy another HD for backup purposes. At the end of an allocated amount of time (day, week, month) pull one of the drives in the array, and slip in the spare drive. It will mirror, and you'll have a snapshot of your system when you pulled the drive. If you screwed everything up, you can slip the 'Backup' drive back into the array and everything's restored back to that point right away. This would work for some users, and may for you. But it depends on what your exact backup needs are.

Okay. Here's what i'd do if you're wanting this RAID system to help redundancy AND be a backup. Firstly, be sure to use a physical RAID card. Don't trust it to software, you're just asking for more problems than necessary (although the motherboard controlled RAID's all right for home use). Secondly you should buy another HD for backup purposes. At the end of an allocated amount of time (day, week, month) pull one of the drives in the array, and slip in the spare drive. It will mirror, and you'll have a snapshot of your system when you pulled the drive. If you screwed everything up, you can slip the 'Backup' drive back into the array and everything's restored back to that point right away. This would work for some users, and may for you. But it depends on what your exact backup needs are.

Why do people say my opinions are crap? I've had two Troll ratings now, just for spouting some interesting things. But of course if it's not the normal way people percieve it, it's obviously wrong. Bye Slashdot. Maybe you should start being nicer to your new members, because i'm leaving.

Burns: I've called you all here because I need some honest answers... How is my financial sitation? Yes Men: Great! Yes Men: Great! Smithers: I hear Great (later) Burns: I see it all, now. You're just a bunch of yes-men. I was making the wrong moves and you were too gutless to tell me! Isn't that right?? Yes-men: Oh, yes, sure, etc. Smithers: Right on, sir. Haha. I know what you mean about Corporations. The Simpson's have got it right:P

Microsoft is steadily loosing ground... Okay, that's cool. It'd be nice to put them off their high horses. However, Microsoft has made a lot of mistakes in recent years (Vista being a huge one!) The thing about Microsoft is they have the money to do just about anything they want... So... Windows 7 is already shaping up to be a goody (I've already tried the Pre-beta m3, and although they're still using the Vista bones in the early versions, it's already gettin there)... And all other mistakes... Well a few ad campaigns to the basic end user etc etc... And they'll reconvert, or keep them. (By normal end user I mean the one's that have no clue when it comes to computers except to check e-mail etc etc.) And they'll remain Cemented on top. Even if Apple and Linux gain more followers, In all honesty I can't see Microsoft dropping off the top perch. Especially when the majority of Big business infrastructure is all Microsoft Server etc... (That's a huge market right there). So, good on Apple and Linux, but lets not kid ourselves people.

I live in New Zealand, and I'm not sure how it applies on the World Scale. But IT jobs require just one thing to obtain... Experience. If you start by targeting the little computer companies, and acquire a job. After a while, with experience etc... You're then exactly what every Large scale corp is looking for (provided good references form previous job). I started out as an orchard worker, although i've always been obsessive about computers, I think started work at a small Computer repair and service Company. After that I was targeted by Gen-i. New Zealands biggest comp company, owned by our Telecom Network:) Over in NZ at least, they figure... Okay well this person has their qualifications, but that doesn't mean they're any good at the actual work. They only know the theory. However this other person has worked in the industry with good references:):) He's in:):)

I'm not sure if this is the right post for it, but I look at buying / downloading Cd's and books like this... If It's something I like enough to pay for, I'll go and buy it in whichever legitimate form I can. However. If It's something that's just okay... You'd read or listen to it if it was there, but there's no way I like it enough to pay for it... Well then i'll download it. Eg. Hmm, Michael Jackson. I used to like a couple of those songs... But man, no way were they good enough to pay for now, okay i'll grab the songs. My theory is, downloading things you wouldn't pay money for isn't hurting anyone, as it's money no body would get from you in the first place. And hey, your ISP profits from the increased Bandwidth usage:P

I'm not sure if this is the right post for it, but I look at buying / downloading Cd's and books like this... If It's something I like enough to pay for, I'll go and buy it in whichever legitimate form I can. However. If It's something that's just okay... You'd read or listen to it if it was there, but there's no way I like it enough to pay for it... Well then i'll download it. Eg. Hmm, Michael Jackson. I used to like a couple of those songs... But man, no way were they good enough to pay for now, okay i'll grab the songs. My theory is, downloading things you wouldn't pay money for isn't hurting anyone, as it's money no body would get from you in the first place. And hey, your ISP profits from the increased Bandwidth usage:P