How to automatically mount favorite volumes with TrueCrypt for Mac

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A simple way to do this is to use a launchd agent. It is a simple XML file that you can download here and put in the directory ~/Library/LaunchAgents inside your user home folder. The ~/Library folder may be hidden by default on your Mac, see this article on how to access it. If you have several users on your Mac and you want the same behavior for all of them, you can also put the plist file in the directory /Library/LaunchAgents at the root of your system drive.

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RAID 1 vs data corruption

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I am completely paranoid about backing up my data. I have a NAS server with a pair of hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I use software RAID to be independent of the hardware and I monitor the SMART reports of my drives regularly. So I thought that I was doing everything right and therefore that my NAS was bulletproof. But with three of my drives failing in the past 5 months, I started to question that assumption. So far I have been lucky that I never had two drives fail at the same time. I knew this was a risk but it seemed very unlikely. Now I am not so sure.

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