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A successful RAID failure
I have a RAID1 setup on my workstation, 2 SATA drivers working in a mirror. Today, it failed. It seems that the controller on the motherboard died and broke the data integrity of one of the HDDs.
There is nothing worse than losing your HDD. Yes, you can back up all your data (even though chances are you will lose some uncommitted work anyway), but reinstalling everything can be extremely annoying.
I don’t even have that many thing installed. Firefox, Chrome, .NET, Java, development tools, libraries, several SDKs, Filezilla, SVN, Google Talk, several other things. Yet, setting up a new workstation can easily take a day if you include Windows installation, patches, updates, and all other wonderful stuff that comes with it.
RAID1 is a a perfect solution for me. The hard drives are so large now that space is never an issue. I use a bit over 100GB of space with all my things setup, my music collection, and ISOs. You get the redundancy you need, and on top of that you increase your reading speed.
I managed to boot form the working drive, wipe the broken HDD, and restore RAID1. Now, I get to enjoy my night as opposed to be busy re-installing and restoring data from backups.
Cheers.
