Text 3945, 33 rader
Skriven 2005-05-01 11:53:50 av Frank Haber (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 3940 av Monte Davis (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Getting at munged NTFS partitions
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From: "Frank Haber" <frhaber@N0SPMrcn.com>

Great, you solved it yourself.  I had my doubts about those magic bullets from
Europe (the one Chris mentioned, and I'd forgotten, and others) working with
RAID 0.  Now could I make a couple of suggestions?

o Relegate RAID 0 to your gaming computer, only. Fegh.  I don't expect you to
listen, but there, I said it.

o You're writing.  Fifteen years ago, a good day would be 2-4k of final copy in
a DOS wordprocessor.  If you're a facile writer, make that 5-10k and accept my
apologies.  With today's file bloat, make that 100k. With pix and diagrams, we
could be talking 500k-1MB.  That's manageable.

Fifteen years ago, they hadn't forgotten how to make floppy disks, and you
could reasonably expect a file written to three floppies to survive a couple of
years on two of them.  Now they make USB keys.  Free yourself from backup
schemes and start secreting USB keys in the henhouse, the safe deposit box,
your dog's collar, etc.  Then dump again to another machine the kid's can't get
to.  They haven't outlawed file copies yet, you know.

(Monte called me, and I didn't have any good answer at my fingertips.  In fact,
I've never heard of a successful recovery of a RAID0 setup, probably because no
one else was smart enough to partiton the spanned disks. But that's enough
fulsome praise.  Fegh again to RAID0.  But kudos for copping the Tolerant
Father of the Week award.  I don't think I could have managed that, and I'm
only an uncle, and can hide when the real tests come.)

(Shame he can't pooch those disks again and do some testing with Partition
Recovery et. al. (g).  I'd love to know, for science's sake.)

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