Ranting to /dev/null

Backups indeed

Well, I learned the advantages and disadvantages of RAID0 (aka "stripe") this afternoon. Advantage: demon-like speed. Throughput several times normal IDE drives. Disadvantage: a data error screws the whole drive because each file is "striped" across two or more discs, so if you get a few bytes off, that's it. Well, I came up with a "cyclic redundancy error", and upon restarting, about 90% of the data on my RAID array was gone. The rest was pretty crispy. Fortunately, I just backed up my audio, so the only data I lost were a few bins and cues I can download again at my leisure.

Moral of the story: RAID1 may not be as efficient a use of space, but it's a hell of a lot safer.