[Leica] Drive question.

[Frank Filippone]

Why bother with RAID arrays' complexity when a simple ROBOCOPY program and a secondary external HDD ( or 2 or 3) provides the same level of backup? 
I realize that the backup is not instantaneous and in real time, but once or twice a day should suffice for most applications.....

Seriously, what benefit is the RAID array?

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

I’ve gone to RAID-1 for my own personal NAS at home (and I use ZFS to ensure data integrity for you geeks). I only get 50% utilization but at least I can be sure that at least one copy will be usable after an HDD failure. I’ve had at least 1 HDD fail and 2 HDD go flakey on me over the last year or 2. Always just past the end of the warranty period. 

Regards,
Spencer