Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] RAID controllers?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon Aug 18 15:57:11 2008
References: <4cfa589b0808181442l43a48cf9x5099715b065362b5@mail.gmail.com> <200808182227.AVU31589@rg5.comporium.net> <B241372DA965DBC5BED4C064@scarborough.isc.org>
 
At 06:42 PM 8/18/2008, you wrote:

>>RAID systems are not recommended by most of the Photoshop gurus that I 
>>read.
>
>Whereas they are the gold standard recommended by most of the IT 
>gurus with whom I associate. I think that some clue is required to 
>use them properly, and in particular a lot of clue is required to 
>recover properly from disk failure.
>
>I back up my RAID5 array. As Tina said, disks are cheap.

And I truly have no clue!  I guess I've read just enough to be scared 
of RAID systems but I'd trust Brian's recommendation (if he's willing 
to come over and fix it when it fails!) ;-)

Tina
In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] RAID controllers?)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] RAID controllers?)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] RAID controllers?)