What fun this weekend. Rebuilding my main computer.

Notes to self:

• Raid 0 is not worth it for desktop apps compared to the safety of Raid 1. Even log analysis tasks that hit the drive a lot.
• If you leave your USB drives plugged in during RAID 1 array config your main, Windows logical drive will end up on drive “G” or something.
• It’s hard to change logical drives once you’re all set up.
• MOZY rocks. This let me grab a few key files. It “could” have saved me totally if needed.
• Secondcopy rocks. This cut hours and hours off of this task since I use it to dupe many files to external drives nightly.
• Dell Precision 670 machines are noisy, no matter what fans you install, especially with dual processors.
• Maxtor drives have failed me twice. These failed after 5 months. I’m trying Western Digital this time.

Questions:

• Why isn’t drive formatting built into RAID array configuration? It’s silly to have to sit there and hit “ok” every few hours. Why not have a “two new drives” setting that handles it and lets you just go to bed.

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