Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Frank, I'm no expert, but it seems that using this method, if a file?or files is/are corrupted, you wouldn't know it unless you checked every few days or so. With terrabytes of data, that's not possible for me. Best, Bob ?Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com ________________________________ From: "red735i at earthlink.net" <red735i at earthlink.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 8:34:13 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] World of pain 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