Sirian Wrote:Yes, this is why I moved to RAID 0+1. Have to have FOUR identical physical drives to run such a matrix, but you get all kinds of SCSI goodness out of that: speed, data redundancy, and never again the fear of losing data (unless the location burns down.)
RAID1 alone is good enough for redundancy, and that's what I've used on my desktop system for some time now. It's even saved my bacon once -- booting up to a "RAID array failed" message was heart-stopping, but no data was lost for some months while I was lazy about sending the bad drive back on an RMA.
RAID0+1 I'd be a little more scared of, because you can't simply take a single drive out, pop it in somewhere else, and have all the data automagically preserved. You'd need to transplant a pair, and also worry about the stripe settings. That said, 0+1 has a lot going for it, especially on the capacity/speed side.
On your regularly scheduled topic, it's interesting that Washington was your primary peaceful opponent -- it seems, given the geography, the most natural. I wonder what the statistics would be for Ghandi/Washington being the leading AI civ, especially compared to the (rarer) games where they were both stunted and Khan/Monty/Alex took the AI lead.
