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| From | "Christopher Kouzes" <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com> |
| Subject | Re: Digital storage; was cd storage recommendation |
| Date | Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:30:32 -0500 |
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I picked up one of these at Christmas:
http://www.drobo.com/
It holds up to 4 hard drives and likes similar to a RAID system. But
unlike RAID, the drives can all be of different sizes and makes and can
hot swapped at any time.
It's pricey and doesn't come with hard drives, but I absolutely love it.
It's fast, convenient, reliable and for another $199, I can pick up a
device that will allow me to network the drive.
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Lee Elliott
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:24 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Digital storage; was cd storage recommendation
Standard safety - for every external drive you buy - buy 2 more for
backups. Rotate one of them off site to another location occasionally.
I would recommend backing up manually - things can happen to trash your
main
drive - then an automated backup process copies the trashed version over
-
so now you have 2 trashed copies! the third off site drive helps here
as
well.
You can get 3 terabyte external drives for less than $500.
I would never consider any kind of RAID setup on it's own as being
backed
up. They are much too prone to failure.
2 terabyte 3.5 inch drives were released/announced by Western Digital
and
Seagate in the last week. With the new sizes - I wouldn't even bother
compressing anymore. Movies or music.
Lee
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