I'm just curious that's all, and as others have commented it's probably not something for the average user.
RAID1 should be compulsory for the "average user" IMHO. The "average user" wouldn't know a backup if it fell on their heads
I dread to think how many photos, films, documents the "average user" has lost in the last five years.
Me? I still have every document/email/usenet post/photo/film/whatever I* have generated in the last 13 years. I doubt I'll be able to say the same in another 13 years as the first ten years produced about 6GB. The next three years seem to have produced about 8 times that - 48GB and its not slowing down.
I think we're very close to the stage that backups are taking so long that even the "clued-up user" won't want the hassle - especially if its the only computer in the house.
RAID1 does it transparently, without any impact on performance (given the way write-caching works in Windows). With the use of system restore points then the "average user" should be almost bomb-proof. Well maybe, but it is Windows
I bet not one in ten of the people who read this post have ever TESTED one of their backups to see that it works.
*plus stuff the family flag as shared
Edit - by "tested" I mean really do the restore and see what occurs. Not verify the backup.
Edit 2 - and none of you posting in this thread are "average users" - nor are most of you reading it. Average users don't want to know about this sort of stuff