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Raid 1 mirrors data to both drives right, so if one drive fails, the other still has the data right? And when/if the one drive fails, I can just replace it with another drive? :confused:
 
yes, if one drive fails, the other still has the data. yes, you can usually just replace the dead drive, rebuild the array, and go on wiht your life
 
Great alright, then I'll definitely be doing RAID 0+1 with my server then. :)
Seems like a good option without losing performance.

I'm going to do RAID 0 with my desktop and just use my external HDD for backing up important stuff.
 
Yeah RAID-5 is better for Servers with 3 or more drives. Only 1 drive can fail in RAID-5. If 2 drives fail at the same time in RAID-5 you lose all data on the rest of the drives, but that is rare. For Desktop PC's RAID-1 is good for redundancy because you can replace a failed drive and it will rebuild another copy to it. But with a RAID-1 two drive array you're only using half the combined capacity for the security of a spare. With my desktop PC I elected to use RAID-0 to both maximize capacity and speed, but if 1 drive fails I lose all data so I also have an external hard drive just for doing periodic full disk image backups just in case I need to do a full disk image restore!
 
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