The Kernel for 8.1 broke a lot of surprising things. I built a system yesterday and it booted fine, right up until I tried to upgrade to Windows 8.1 . Hardware driver errors kept causing it to BSOD and reset itself.... And this was new, out of the box hardware, with the drivers installed off the disk it came with.
I really should've Linuxed it like I planned to, but I got 8(not 8.1)Pro cheap , and it has a few features that are handy for what I wanted to do with the new system.
I would say that you shouldn't rely on RAID - it's really a false security. It's really only good if one of the disks goes POP! suddenly and just drops straight out of the array. If it doesn't, if it fails but hangs in there still 'operational' but dying, then it's going to spew corrupt data all over the mirror and ruin everything. Having had this happen to the system that contained the entire accounts of the company I used to work for when a RAID'd drive failed overnight I know from experience that the results can be horrific. Worse - it failed when I was out of the country - and was a big contributor to the Business' decision to call it a day at the end of December.
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I really should've Linuxed it like I planned to, but I got 8(not 8.1)Pro cheap , and it has a few features that are handy for what I wanted to do with the new system.
I would say that you shouldn't rely on RAID - it's really a false security. It's really only good if one of the disks goes POP! suddenly and just drops straight out of the array. If it doesn't, if it fails but hangs in there still 'operational' but dying, then it's going to spew corrupt data all over the mirror and ruin everything. Having had this happen to the system that contained the entire accounts of the company I used to work for when a RAID'd drive failed overnight I know from experience that the results can be horrific. Worse - it failed when I was out of the country - and was a big contributor to the Business' decision to call it a day at the end of December.
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