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For the same price point, maybe. But, hard drives are one of the most expensive components of a laptop. Choosing between $500 and $600 is a big deal. Network ba
by briansmith 18y ago
For the same price point, maybe. But, hard drives are one of the most expensive components of a laptop. Choosing between $500 and $600 is a big deal. Network backup like Mozy is competitively priced, especially when you consider the high chance of catastrophic loss that laptops have (stolen, lost, dropped, flooded).
Plus, if you were going to trade 50% of capacity for safety, there are a lot of other kinds of safety precautions to consider. For example, file history versioning (like a local, always-on Mozy or Dropbox or Subversion) would probably protect the user from more data loss than RAID, because most data loss is due to human error, not mechanical failure.
That said, I would really like my laptop to have RAID-1. Actually, I have two 100GB hard drives and an Ultrabay...maybe I will give it a shot on my Linux partition.