On 2/2/06, Peter Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have yet to have a windows machine die because of a disk failure > when mirrored.
ok, I'll take the bait. you are documenting simply, that you had luck in the past, perhaps also due to some good hardware (although I do not trust those $25 "hardware"-raid-controllers, be it onboard or on an extra card. I've seen windows die on soft raid and also on hard raid. the latter one was especially nice. one disk died, the controller either didn't recognize it or the driver didn't ask the controller, so no one knew the drive was dead. severaly minutes after rebooting the system locked completely up (again). cheap hard raid. bad driver. *cough* adaptec *cough* when I use raid, I want to know when something is wrong, and I want come back up asap. when I want hyper-availability, I have to do something duplicating entire machines, routers/firewalls have carp, and server have either some application-clustering or a hack simulating something like that. --knitti
