[Leica] Seagate

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At 10:56 PM 7/31/2009, you wrote:
I believe that the only possibility of a solution to the reliability 
problem that you have posed, given the constraint that it be usable 
from Windows, is a distributed SAN (Storage Area Network) system that 
holds all of your data and that your computer will access via Fibre 
Channel or gigabit ethernet. You would rely primarily on background 
internet connections to synchronize the two nodes of your SAN system 
but there would be a way of carrying a USB thumb drive back and forth 
in order to accelerate the movement of data.

>This is not something, as far as I know, that you can currently buy 
>and plug in and install.

What is your opinion of Drobo vs RAID vs JBOD as storage and 
backup?  The SAN sounds good but I would have to get an IT person to 
set it up for me.  How expensive would that be and would I be able to 
maintain it myself?

Tina

Tina Manley
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