Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have two timemachine backups--one at home and one at the office for photos, i have all on external drives--one the primary (firewire) drive and the other (usb) just copies the primary with CarbonCopyCloner every time it's mounted. ric On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:34 AM, red735i at earthlink.net wrote: > I know that everyone loves the concept of Raid Arrays.... > > But a simple question..... > > Why use RAID HDD? Why not simply buy a "few" external USB/Firwire HDD and > every night arrange for them to make incremental backups automatically? > They are available up to 2TB, cost about $100-200 each, and seem to be as > reliable as in-computer HDD. > > Use 3 of them.. with every day another drive gets backed up, the other 2 > being 1 or 2 days old in data......so you have a laddered backup strategy, > and quadruple redundancy. > > ???? > > Frank, desperately grasping over the issue himself..... > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information