Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This should take care of your backup ;-) http://www.certance.com/products/lto-ultrium/lto3/CL1102-SS Certance is now owned by Quantum, but I know a lot about Certance. Seriously, current optical technology is unlikely to ever reach the capacities of magnetic. DVD's are optical, Hard disc is magnetic. As to RAID, it's not a backup. It can save you from a restore if a drive fails, RAID 1 or RAID 5, not RAID 0. Brian's recommendation of backing up to a hard disc that's kept off-line without any power connected is the best bet for most of us. Karen Nakamura wrote: > > There are some nice consumer RAIDs that are coming out. I might buy > this after I return to the United States: > > http://www.cnet.com/4520-10602_1-5618710-1.html > > The Buffalo Terastation does Raid 5 with its four internal 250 > gigabyte drives (750 megabytes total in RAID 5 mode) and will > automatically fix itself if one of the drives dies. The one question > I have is whether the drives are consumer replaceable -- once 500 > gigabyte drives are available, can I buy four of them and get my own > 1.5 terabyte RAID5 cluster. > > Can anyone explain why backup technologies are always one step behind > HD technology? Just when I thought DVD-Rs would be perfect for > backups, 300 gigabyte drives come out (70 DVD-Rs to backup). > > Karen Nakamura >