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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Nice. 😎

I have everything backed up on two separate HDs in two separate boxes. All the completely irreplaceable stuff (pics of son and family) are burned to a DVD as well. 🙂
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I stink at backing things up. I thought this would be a good investment to protect me from... me!

Mango it's PCI based, each drive is on its own channel. It's an IDE raid with the 3.2ghz CPU doing some of the parity muscle. I have not benchmarked it but find it to be very quick. The primary drive is a 74gb raptor and it doesn't "feel" much faster.
 
How does raid 5 work? I thought the only way your stuff could be backed up is if everything was mirrored?
 
Originally posted by: Supercharged
How does raid 5 work? I thought the only way your stuff could be backed up is if everything was mirrored?
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You need at least 3 drives. X = data, O = parity

drive1:XXOXXOXXO
drive2:OXXOXXOXX
drive3:XOXXOXXOX
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
I don't know much about RAID, but how does 1600 GB become 1.09 TB?
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You lose the last drive in a raid 5 setup for parity. If you installed 5 drives you'd then be somewhere around 1.6tb. You need to balance the cost of the lost drive with the inevitable drive failure. More drives = more likely 2 will fail at the same time, losing all your data. It's typical to only use 3-4 drives in a raid 5 setup.
 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: chuckywang
I don't know much about RAID, but how does 1600 GB become 1.09 TB?
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You lose the last drive in a raid 5 setup for parity. If you installed 5 drives you'd then be somewhere around 1.6tb.
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So the 5th drive is for backup purposes?
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: chuckywang
I don't know much about RAID, but how does 1600 GB become 1.09 TB?
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You lose the last drive in a raid 5 setup for parity. If you installed 5 drives you'd then be somewhere around 1.6tb.
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So the 5th drive is for backup purposes?
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Not quite. The parity of each drive is stored on all the other drives, so with any single failure the data is intact.


 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: KLin
holy crap, how many hard drives is that? what size are the drives? :Q
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Four seagate 400GB. Got the controller off of ATFS/T for $100.
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mother of god...

that's a lot of space.. I was thinking you didn't understand raid when you said 5, but now.. dayumn.. you win.
 
However you are still vulnerable to viruses and the such, which is why I always image my drives to back them up. 🙂 If I had the money I would run RAID 5 and then image them too, but that would be insanely expensive.
 
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
However you are still vulnerable to viruses and the such, which is why I always image my drives to back them up. 🙂 If I had the money I would run RAID 5 and then image them too, but that would be insanely expensive.
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Raid 5 with two partitions an OS\base programs partition and a data partition.
Take a non sector based image of your OS partition and you're good to go... it will be relatively small and Ghost will put it on a couple of DVD's for you.
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
However you are still vulnerable to viruses and the such, which is why I always image my drives to back them up. 🙂 If I had the money I would run RAID 5 and then image them too, but that would be insanely expensive.
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Raid 5 with two partitions an OS\base programs partition and a data partition.
Take a non sector based image of your OS partition and you're good to go... it will be relatively small and Ghost will put it on a couple of DVD's for you.
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He's already got a 74 gig raptor for OS/programs...
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
However you are still vulnerable to viruses and the such, which is why I always image my drives to back them up. 🙂 If I had the money I would run RAID 5 and then image them too, but that would be insanely expensive.
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Raid 5 with two partitions an OS\base programs partition and a data partition.
Take a non sector based image of your OS partition and you're good to go... it will be relatively small and Ghost will put it on a couple of DVD's for you.
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He's already got a 74 gig raptor for OS/programs...
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I was trying to say to Sukhoi that if you're going to run raid you should also be doing backups. Raid 5 + backups isn't that much more expensive than Raid 5...
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
However you are still vulnerable to viruses and the such, which is why I always image my drives to back them up. 🙂 If I had the money I would run RAID 5 and then image them too, but that would be insanely expensive.
Click to expand...

Raid 5 with two partitions an OS\base programs partition and a data partition.
Take a non sector based image of your OS partition and you're good to go... it will be relatively small and Ghost will put it on a couple of DVD's for you.
Click to expand...

He's already got a 74 gig raptor for OS/programs...
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I was trying to say to Sukhoi that if you're going to run raid you should also be doing backups. Raid 5 + backups isn't that much more expensive than Raid 5...
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Well I'm probably weird, but I have a separate hard drive in my computer just for backup images. Every month or two I completely image my hard drive onto the backup drive, and then unplug the backup drive so I don't have much of a chance of it getting fried from a powersurge or something similar.
 
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Well I'm probably weird, but I have a separate hard drive in my computer just for backup images. Every month or two I completely image my hard drive onto the backup drive, and then unplug the backup drive so I don't have much of a chance of it getting fried from a powersurge or something similar.
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Your not weird. I do the same thing. If I had the extra cash laying around I would probably setup a RAID-5 setup with about 600ishGB. That would be enough to suit my needs for a while.
 
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