SFS Round 3 - Starting Soon!

[Digger]

Mark,

Yet another satisfied Dell Customer...

Next time you may wish to consider a straight mirror (RAID 1) of both of your hard drives, especially considering that disks are so cheap these days. That way all the information on your 1st harddrive is replicated on the 2nd and if the 1st fails you haven't lost a thing as the 2nd drive operates until the 1st is replaced..You need a RAID Array controller to get this to work, however.

That is pretty much how most Servers are run these days. If Dell did some bizarro form of Disk striping, they deserve to be shot as you need a minimum of 3 Hard Disks to make this work, 2 Disks to stripe the Data and 1 disk to maintain parity, so that data can be recovered if either of the first two fail. Looks like they gave you a bum steer..as an option you can always just grab Norton Ghost and backup the entire contents of one disk onto another..

Whoops too much computer talk..back to work for me

Matt ~Digger