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Feb 10, 2011, 11:04 am

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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel

You get no choice. Everything is split between the two drives. It's not even on a file-by-file level, but even lower level. The only time I've set up a Raid 0 (actually, a Raid 10 which uses 4 drives and gives reasonable safety, but it configures rather like a Raid 0) it used 64k stripes. 64k of data to one, the next 64k to the other, independent of the file structure.

If you lose one drive the data on the other is worthless.

This is just getting better and better.

How would you back up a system like this on an external hard drive?

Better yet, how would you restore to a system like this?

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