I took a strange phone call from the field today, asking for advice about creating policies and procedures on data recovery. There’s no easy answer.
All posts tagged raid 1
Handling data recovery
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 22, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/handling-data-recovery/
4 more questions about RAID
Longtime reader Jim ` asked me a few more worthwhile questions while I was procrastinating working on yesterday’s post about RAID. Let’s go to Q&A format.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 30, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/11/4-more-questions-about-raid/
RAID 101
Once exclusively used in corporate servers and by performance enthusiasts, the cost of hard drives and chipsets is so low now that RAID is showing up in consumer PCs. That’s good–as long as you set it up carefully.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 29, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/11/raid-101/
It’s been 15 years, and computer stores haven’t changed much
In the early 1990s, I learned how to fix computers because I got tired of long waits and shoddy repairs from computer stores. Last month I took a friend to go buy a computer. I didn’t want her to get stuck with retail junk, so I took her to a computer store that I knew [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 3, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/11/its-been-15-years-and-computer-stores-havent-changed-much/
My first Windows 7 build
I rebuilt a friend’s Windows 7 system this week. The system includes a 30 GB SSD to boot from, and a RAID 1 mirror of 1 TB drives for storage. Aside from the two 1 TB drives, it’s basically a collection of $100 components. $100 Asus motherboard, $100 video card, $100 CPU. It seems like [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 26, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/my-first-windows-7-build/