On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:55:14PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> 
> What I've not seen discussed here is the purpose of using RAID1.  I
> guess it is related to avoid data loss in case one drive dies.  The
> other thing I'm guessing is that SSD is wanted due to the performance.
> 

Correcto. SSD, HDD, punch cards, you still need protection against single device failure.

These days, "hardware is free", compared to cost of down time, cost of manual crash recovery, etc.

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