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Having all your data backed up in real time and not having to ever copy from one drive to another or wonder where the #$%#% a file went: priceless.
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Raid5 is not backup, it's fault tolerance. Raid failures occur (trust me, I've blown 2 r5's, one from simulataneous drive failure).

My current rig is 8x160's (gotta break down and up them to the 400's like you have), 1 is a hot spare. That is copied (not real time) to a raid5 6x80 array (gonna move the 160's there after I upgrade the main array).

Then, the original is also copied off box to a Lacie 1tb drive on a linksys nas controller.

I also replicate remotely to another Lacie 1tb drive at my cabin.

Thats backup (I hope I hope I hope....) 😉
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Having all your data backed up in real time and not having to ever copy from one drive to another or wonder where the #$%#% a file went: priceless.
Click to expand...

Raid5 is not backup, it's fault tolerance. Raid failures occur (trust me, I've blown 2 r5's, one from simulataneous drive failure).

My current rig is 8x160's (gotta break down and up them to the 400's like you have), 1 is a hot spare. That is copied (not real time) to a raid5 6x80 array (gonna move the 160's there after I upgrade the main array).

Then, the original is also copied off box to a Lacie 1tb drive on a linksys nas controller.

I also replicate remotely to another Lacie 1tb drive at my cabin.

Thats backup (I hope I hope I hope....) 😉
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WTF? do you store top secret archives for the NSA or something?
 
My 8 serial ATA port Riad 5 card should be here tuesday 8 * 160 GB drives on a PCI-x board at RAID 5 = only 960 GB, but I have more drives. nah nah!
 
what controller? my local BB still has like 6 of those $90 300Gb seagates...I got one...two more for raid 5 would be sweet.
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Having all your data backed up in real time and not having to ever copy from one drive to another or wonder where the #$%#% a file went: priceless.
Click to expand...

Raid5 is not backup, it's fault tolerance. Raid failures occur (trust me, I've blown 2 r5's, one from simulataneous drive failure).

My current rig is 8x160's (gotta break down and up them to the 400's like you have), 1 is a hot spare. That is copied (not real time) to a raid5 6x80 array (gonna move the 160's there after I upgrade the main array).

Then, the original is also copied off box to a Lacie 1tb drive on a linksys nas controller.

I also replicate remotely to another Lacie 1tb drive at my cabin.

Thats backup (I hope I hope I hope....) 😉
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That's a lot of porn! 😀
 
Originally posted by: bsobel

Raid5 is not backup, it's fault tolerance. Raid failures occur (trust me, I've blown 2 r5's, one from simulataneous drive failure).
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Ah yes, the infamous double-drive-death :|
I had a nice Server 2003 installation setup on an old quad Xeon 700 machine, testing the internal Forums/Knowledge Base installation I made on it.

One of the 18Gb Fujitsu drives went offline (to this day, I still don't know why), and another drive croaked. If the first drive hadn't knocked itself offline, the hot spare would have kicked in and it would still be running to this day.

I made do with an old dual PIII-500, with a single SCSI disk and a tape drive, which, by the way, is still running two months later without a single crash, under XP 😀
 
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