Re: recommendation for mirroring software
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:59:31 -0600
Marc wrote:
Hello: Would like to implement a complete mirror h/d for my Win XP
SP2 machine so that all system software (eg Win update) and
hardware driver u/d, etc are automagically reflected into a
secondary disk that is immediately bootable, fully updated assuming
a complete crash of the primary boot disk. Am not a techie so ease
of use would be an asset. Question: any recommendations for EZ
s/w that performs this?
I recommend against a mirror situation. The majority of problems that are
ran into are *not* hardware ones - but software. In the case of a mirror
RAID - you are just duplicating the problem as it occurs *unless* it is that
small chance it is a hardware failure.
Not only that - I would recommend avoiding any software solutions to RAID.
In most cases there is a performance hit (however small it might be) as the
software has to process and implement the replication/RAID functionality -
using up your processor time/memory/other resources to do so instead of an
inexpensive RAID hardware card doing the work for you.
Overall - I would recommend a good backup plan above (or supplementing) a
RAID setup.
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