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Thread-Topic: How to recover data from dead hard drive. 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Our mileage is probably the same;= I >was ranting about the people who DO loose critical data through bad practi= ce. Seriously, how many people call a doctor to say that they are feeling fine?= I have used many different methods over the years. For the past four I have employed RAID5 with three drives and excellent results. I am soon going to = be getting a new machine up and running and a friend wants me to use RAID 10, also known as RAID 1+0 which involves four drives. Personally, my confidence in hardware RAID far exceeds that of software bas= ed RAID without regards to the OS. Of course, YMMV. --=20 Carmel NOTE: Please do not "CC" me. I am a member of this list.