On Computers: Mirror drive doubles protection of data
(WorldNews Business)

Over the holidays we visited with an Italian who sells automated chicken coops. It’s an odd business but somebody has to do it.But what we thought was really odd was in the basement of his home in suburban Chicago, he had six terabyte disk drives linked together in what the techies call a daisy chain. That means they can all act as one continuous drive as the contents are fed along the pipeline. He uses them to store information for his business, and, oh yeah, movies. [...] ......