[kh99]

I tried using RAID mirroring a couple times in the past with bad results. One time I tried using the software option built in to XP (I think) and the second time I got a hardware controller. Both times the drives eventually got out of sync and couldn't be resynced for some reason. But I'm not saying it shouldn't be used, only that I had bad luck. But also, having that protects against a drive crash but not against accidental or malicious deleting of things, so it's good to have a back up as well. I think RAID mirroring is more of a thing to prevent downtime than a backup solution.

I stayed with XP for as long as I could (just like I held on to NT before that), but you have to give it up sometime. I mean, you're talking about something that's almost 15 years old, that's like an eternity in the computer world.