Originally Posted By: Mark_R

For those of you with computer expertise, is breaking a hard drive into multiple partitions, each one with a full copy of the data, more secure then a single partition?


No. Sector corruption can happen but some filesystems can compensate for this. The problem is more commonly failure of the drive itself (and ALL partitions fail simultaneously) or power supply issues take out all hard drives on the system simultaneously and possibly multiple systems on the same power grid.

The only thing that having multiple copies on the same hard drive will save is if one deletes a file accidentally, a 2nd copy is available for backup (assuming that you having configured it to automatically mirror).

Off site and off line backup is needed for data security.