-=> Angus Mcleod Scribbled to Sniper <=-

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 AM>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 AM>   By: Sniper to Belly on Wed
 AM> Aug 18 2004 14:50:00

 > Oh Shit.  No backup...  No copies...

 AM> Yes, that is one of the things that frightens me about creating a large
 AM> music collection on disk -- the possibility of data-loss.  Theer simply
 AM> isn't any clean backup method that will handle 50+ gig of disk.  And
 AM> no, 'tape' isn't the answer for me either, ever since I had *nine*
 AM> backup tapes declared useless by a data-recovery service.  Tape
 AM> reliability is so low (IMHO) as to make the cost of the tapedrive a
 AM> waste of money.  You'd be better off building a separate machine to
 AM> copy your data to.  (We actually did this in the office.) 

Yea, with these larger drives, 300 gig's, and no easy way to back it
up...  Really pisses me off.  I have a client right now, who's got so
much data that it doesn't fit on the largest Dat tape drive.  Looking
now at the next level, and the next level is actually skipped and we
jump into the monsters  tape drives... Mammoth, and
such.  Geez...  

So, how are us little home users supposed to afford that kind of stuff?
Or how are we supposed to justify it?  We can't, so we are now in 
jeporady.  Such as I just went through. Loosing 110 gig's of files in
one fell swoop.  Not fun.  

I've never had a major problem with tapes... Once in a while I have had
one go bad, but overall, they just keep doing their jobs.  I haven't
"Tested" one recently... but maybe I should for all my clients.  :)
More Money.



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