Milan Babuskov wrote:

> ...
> With a proper backup strategy, no. However, nice thing about RAID1 is
> robustness. If one of the disks fail, your customer's system is still
> operational, and you have enough time to replace it instead of having to
> drive to their data center in the middle of the night, for example.
>
> And you can then activate a new disk in mirror without having to pull
> stuff from backup and risk that you missed some part of the setup.
>
> IMHO, RAID1 is just like Firebird: good for people who like to sleep at
> night. :)
>

Absolutely!

RAID 0 might be a solution for a ReadOnly database where you just can
reload the whole thing.


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Aage J.