Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I disagree. Mission critical servers use RAID arrays of multiple >disks. And size does matter. A bigger disk has different sector >geometry, higher recording densities, and is more vulnerable to >imperfections and dust. 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 http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ --