[OT] Does a multi-drive USB external hard disk rack exist?

[ms]

On 05/09/10 01:03, drew einhorn wrote:
> I stay away from hardware raid unless it's a really high end raid controller
> with
> a support contract from the vendor.  With software raid recovery after a
> hardware
> failure is much more certain.  With hardware raid you may not be able to
> recover
> unless the new hardware matches the exact model number including version
> number,
> and firmware version (controller, and all drives).
>
> With software raid recovery from hardware failures is much more straight
> forward,
> and more likely to succeed.
>
> I have seen a raid controller go berserk and write garbage on all the
> drives.
> Raid is not a substitute for backups.

Yep, I've heard similar horror stories too. Thanks for the advice anyway.

m.