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Anyone else get the feeling Fansubs are an evil plan of hardrive manfactures?
Burkingam:
Unfortunate I have never done it so I don't know the details but I know the theory. There is more than one way to do it. It can be devised in 2 categories. Hardware and Software.
A Soft Raid will use a software, usually it's integrated directly in your OS. I will generally slow down your computer because it uses your CPU to manage itself.
A Hard Raid will use a RAID controller which is a material that can be integrated on your motherboard or on an extension card. How to proceed will depend of the material you get. A true hard Raid will use a dedicated Chip to manage itself which will not slow your computer down but they are usually expensive. There is a lot of disk array controllers with a fake hard Raid. The driver of the controller simply contain a Raid Software. Unfortunately, it's rarely obvious on the documentation provided by the manufacturer if it's a true Hard Raid or if it's driver based.
As you can see it's not that easy to answer your question. For more information I suggest you look on a specialised forum, maybe search on google. there is a lot of documentation about how to proceed out there.
fullblue:
Thanks for the info.
I'm sticking with external HDD at the moment. Since they might cause trouble (dead + data loss) once a while or anytime soon, someone adviced me to built a RAID 1.
Meomix:
If your EXHD comes with raid thats a bonus.
AceHigh:
I would build it around HighPoint Raid controller cards.
That is "hard RAID" that Burkingam was referring to. Those cards cost from 30 to 1000 bucks, so I will choose one I need for my needs when the time comes.
Thing is, unless evga has a motherboard that I like and it has 2 PCI-E 2.0 slots, I will either have one software raid and one hardware, or only have raid 5 for the storage.
StarDruid:
--- Quote from: fullblue on February 08, 2011, 04:25:16 PM ---Thanks for the info.
I'm sticking with external HDD at the moment. Since they might cause trouble (dead + data loss) once a while or anytime soon, someone adviced me to built a RAID 1.
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Just in case you didn't know with the prepackaged external HDD in some cases if it just dies the it might be the the HDD on-board power or controller boards that went down. It's just a normal internal hard drive (though might be a smaller 2.5 laptop drive in smaller externals) that inside so can be installed in your machine to test it. Have to look at your warranty but might be able to save the data that way.
Personal I never delete a series, I ether keep it on my hard drive or put it on the plastics disk of the forgotten aka data DVD. I got several hundred data DVD, but always forgot what I have and on/in which spindle/Mass DVD/CD case. Just need to get of my lazy but and make a database for all the series and where it stored. Sadly DVD are about useless anymore, since we're talking about back up series from 4 1 Tb drives. That about 250+ DVDs per drive.
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