No Mirror or Raid

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, I can tell you that mirrored drives saved me the cost of losing *at
least* one day's worth of business at one of our branches last month.
Potentially, we would have lost future business because of our inability to
deliver during our outage.

You need to figure your own CON.  Presuming you have a perfect nightly backup
that you can restore from, how long would it take you to restore that backup?
THEN, what are the implications of losing everything that happened since the
last backup?

PROs: save money (but pay me a little now or pay me a LOT, later)

IMHO, since disk drives will invariably fail, and Murphy dictates that it will
happen at the worst opportunity, the costs saved by not mirroring or RAIDing
your drives could very easily be eaten up by your first drive failure.

The CONs far outweigh and PROs.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
Guys,

What are the PROs and CONs on a system without disk mirror or raid.

Dare
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