My computer is dead.\u00a0 Windows refuse to restart.\u00a0 The computer keep rebooting itself on the XP logo screen.\u00a0 I was horrified, worrying losing all my data.\u00a0 Hardware failure is not a big deal, you can always replace the broken parts.\u00a0 However the data inside the computer is irreplaceable.\u00a0 Luckily all my hard drives are intact, only the Windows itself is corrupted.\u00a0 It will only take me a few days to re-install Windows and all my usual programs.\u00a0 However, I feel a bit uneasy to format my C: drive.\u00a0 I want to keep all the data in case there is something important.\u00a0 So I have to buy an extra hard disk to copy over the data.<\/p>\n
Since I am already buying more hard disk, why don’t I fix it once for all, so that I can have a peace of mind.\u00a0 I upgraded the motherboard to one that support RAID and bought more hard disk space.\u00a0 RAID stands for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks.\u00a0 The idea is having two hard drive running in parallel mirroring each other.\u00a0 In case of a disk failure, you still have a complete set of data.\u00a0 It is a hardware solution, works much better than backup software.\u00a0 Now I know my photos, my personal records and my mp3 collections of every Chinese CD released in the past 20 years are safe inside the hard disks, which have over 2TB capacity in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"