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from: Angus Mcleod
date: 2004-08-19 09:53:00
subject: To RAID or not to RAID?

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

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

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

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