[Tig] removable storage disks

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bob Kertesz wrote:
>> I should have known better than to purchase
>> any RAID 0 product since such products are at least 2X (but probably
>> 4X) more likely to fail than single drive units.
>
> I haven't heard anything like that before. Why do you think that's the case?

Due to use of twice as many non-redundant components, of course.  With 
RAID 0, if any of the drives fail, then all of the data is lost.

The external drive vendors push RAID 0 due to its (supposed) 
performance boost, but the reality is that they like RAID 0 since it 
allows them to easily offer more storage in the box while using 
lower-capacity, cheaper, drives.

Bob
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