RAID1 Newbie Question {Help}

Until now we were using 2 SATA drives on each server and taking backup on secondary drive. In case of server crash, we have software that rebuilds server and everything is back operational in 2-5 hours depending on number of sites.

Now, we are going to take a Dual Xeon 3.0 1GB RAM 160 SATA server with hardwre RAID1. This is a DELL server. While searching WHT I noticed people saying that RAID failed and both drives were corrupt leaving no backup behind. My qustion is:

1. Should we go for RAID1 or the current manual backup solution would be more safe forus.
2. If we go with RAID shall we take additional offsite backups?

What are Pros and Cons of RAID1 vs manual backup and rebuild.

RAID1 Newbie Question {Help}

 

 

 

 

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