Ssd/scsi/ssd?

[jnathan]

I am a passionate Home PC user.
Losing my valuable Data for the last few years for failed motor based HDDs- bad sector, motor problem, undetected in BIOS.

I dont want to lose any more data. Want to use something rock solid.
Want a software that would backup any new file added every week.

SSD is the solution for me? How reliable is SSD comparing to SCSI?
What would be the advice to someone who has his whole life used ATA, SATA and now wanted to start using SSD or SCSI?

 

[Emulex]

as i just posted; you need to look at the holistic view of your site recovery. how are you going to live when a fire takes the life of your entire house (hypothetical)?

scsi is dead; sas is the new scsi; sata is the replacement for ata(pata/ide).
generationally sas is one-up on sata; but sata is advancing however it is far less costly to implement sata or we'd all be running sas now.

ssd is fine; so is any sata drive; you need to find a solution that will keep your images locally and remotely backed up - do not trust the cloud alone -

windows home server or other nas solution - maybe integrated to your htpc for home backup? - with a cloud backup system for important documents/images.

 

[jnathan]

Ok Gud. What kinda RAID Card you suggest me to use?
My Purpose: Data be written on both at the same time or whatevr the technology is. and when one dies, another one stays alive.
This is troublesome tho.

But I am thinking to get something like daily added files to be backed up with the files added on previous day. doesnt it called increamental? Which Soft does it the best?

 

[Emulex]

windows home server would handle your machine and incremental backups. its like time machine for mac. raid is highly overrated and should only be used for performance (raid-0) or in a datacenter environment where things like power and stability are controlled. thats imo. i have tried raid on the cheap so many times and it results in one thing - failure.

tiered storage and backup makes sense..

ssd boot for speed; local 1tb drive for work/games/pr0n; network backup since we all have many pc's these days; offsite cloud storage for your images in case of total devastation.

you don't want your offsite at the neighbor's house in case of say a tornado i thought of that one already.

symantec's backup products are the gold standard if you want a software only solution. they work. BESR (standalone bare metal) and the consumer counterpart. they do it well. acronis makes a product as well; i have had more instability with their product at an enterprise level - where 0% failure is the only acceptable answer. acronis probably has grown up in the last few years but you know the saying burn me once

 

[pjkenned]

Just to add on Emulex's comments, if you are going to have a "low" amount of storage (<10TB) and need Windows client backups, WHS boxes are great. The HP Mediasmarts are really good and even do media transcoding. One huge benefit of WHS if you have multiple PC's is that it has not just automatic backups, but it also has dedupe meaning if you have 3 systems, all of them with similar OS/software, and a lot of replicated files, they will be stored once for backups (and a second time for duplication) versus once for each system and then replicated again for each system.

I've basically gone from tiered SAS storage to SSD's in main machines with all files/media being stored and backed up on WHS.

The important thing to remember is that drives will fail. Plan accordingly.