Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Felix Miata (12024-01-24):
> Technically, quite true. However, OS and user data are very different. User data
> recreation and/or restoration can be as painful as impossible, justifying RAID. OS
> can be reinstalled rather easily in a nominal amount of time. A 120G SSD can hold
> multiple OS installations quite easily. A spare 120G SSD costs less than a petrol
> fillup. I stopped putting OS on RAID when I got my first SSD. My current primary
> PC has 5 18G OS installations, all bootable much more quickly than finding a
> suitable USB stick to rescue boot from.

Looks you are confusing RAID with backups. Yes, OS can be reinstalled,
but that still makes “a nominal amount of time” during which your
computer is not available.

Your “spare” SSD would be more usefully used in a RAID array than
corroding on your shelves.

-- 
  Nicolas George