Ah, I edited my earlier post to show that my ‘workstation’ is custom built. Anyway, I can see the use of RAID/Mirroring, but to be honest, that’s a little too expensive for me. I’ve only had a harddrive fail on me once, and that was a ‘Discard’ one, picked up from a box of rejected computer parts (the floppy drive that I picked up from the same box still works, mind you :P)
But yea, the 15GB in my server is from 1999 I think, still does its job faithfully. Even though it’s a Maxtor, and I’m most content about Western Digital. But I guess I take other safety measures to not need to insurance RAID/Mirroring provides.
Most computers around my house (I have more, but Athena and Jessica are the only ones currently active) have an 80GB harddrive. I split up the harddrive in a 20GB partition for the OS and a 60GB partition for the applications, media, etc. That way, should anything go wrong, I could always reinstall the OS without having to reinstall the applications (most of the times, registry keys aren’t even required, but taking them away like that messes up the configuration/settings of the apps in a lot of cases). Besides that, I save install files of the usual applications on the external Porsche 250GB harddrive connected to my fileserver. I guess that’s the only disk I really should mirror with a second.
But it saves a poor junior software developer from NL with a gf in NY a lot of money to opt to not use RAID 
Especially the lighting. And it’s not that old yet, the specs can easily be considered ‘modern’ if you don’t consider Alienware PCs or somethin.
