Raid-1

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>Do you have a console open? I'm not sure how the modern windowing systems
>deal with this. I tend to check dmesg on a regular basis on the machines
>I maintain.
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I use smartmontools and logcheck; System events get emailed to me
hourly, so I'll know if there are any problems. You'd home
smartmontools would start to pick that a drive was about to fail so
you'd even get advanced notice.

I have nothing else to add because I only use hardware raid.

-- 
Steven Kurylo