I just had to share this with the world. I was just sitting at my desk and caught the tail end of a conversation between two coworkers. They were talking about the disk configuration in a server.
Person #1 -- How are the disks configured?
Person #2 -- When data is written to one drive, it is also written to another drive.
Person #1 -- Okay, the disks are mirrored.
Person #2 -- No, it isn't mirrored. It's RAID-ed.
I wasn't a part of the conversation, so maybe Person #2 meant something else. But he just kept describing disk mirroring. While there are RAID levels for mirroring, it can also be called just that...mirroring. One isn't right and the other wrong.
You really had to be there. It was just how Person #2 was talking down to Person #1 acting like saying "mirroring" in this situation was completely wrong. Could you imagine if someone was telling you that, let's say, RAID1 does not equal "disk mirroring"?
In this case, I think the person had just learned the term "RAID" and was trying to shun any other words to describe what his pretty new word was describing.
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