Indeed. My /home directory is on a 1TB 3-way RAID 1. Because I am that paranoid about disk failure.
Interestingly, all three disks failed, because Newegg does not know how to ship them properly. Never buying disks from them again. The good news is that only two failed at the same time, so there was no data loss. And the replacement disks from the manufacturer, Samsung, have been chugging along for months just fine.
RAID on your desktop is nice. RAID on your server is mandatory. The total cost was $300 for one fucking terabyte. Just do it :)
I've purchased many hard drives from NewEgg, those same hard drives have been through two moves now and they are still going along strong. Not a single bad sector or anything along those lines.
I agree with that: the cost of a few extra mirror disks is negligible compared to the amount of time one loses rebuilding a machine (OS + applications + configuration) from scratch.
Yet, all too often I come across people who don't want RAID1 because they can save $60 by not installing that second disk.
Interestingly, all three disks failed, because Newegg does not know how to ship them properly. Never buying disks from them again. The good news is that only two failed at the same time, so there was no data loss. And the replacement disks from the manufacturer, Samsung, have been chugging along for months just fine.
RAID on your desktop is nice. RAID on your server is mandatory. The total cost was $300 for one fucking terabyte. Just do it :)