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Backups of Media? How do you handle it?
Tatsujin:
Can you run RAID on external hard drives? If so, does it require specific HDD's to implement the feature and possibly other equipment? I'm sure there is. My knowledge on RAID is close to 0.
Zirro:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 28, 2011, 05:30:53 PM ---Can you run RAID on external hard drives? If so, does it require specific HDD's to implement the feature and possibly other equipment? I'm sure there is. My knowledge on RAID is close to 0.
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I do it on regular external hard drives through the disk utility in OS X. I've also heard of RAID-specific equipment, but I suppose those are only needed when dealing with more advanced levels of RAID.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 28, 2011, 05:30:53 PM ---Can you run RAID on external hard drives? If so, does it require specific HDD's to implement the feature and possibly other equipment? I'm sure there is. My knowledge on RAID is close to 0.
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You can through software raid. I've got my two raid arrays combined into one array.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: hyperlight on March 28, 2011, 06:04:16 AM ---When I say costs are too high, I mean costs are too high to back it up.
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If you've got RAID 5, a backup isn't really necessary unless you have sensitive data on it that you can't afford to lose. That's why I consider it cost-effective.
Tri_Edge:
I started using backups just recently.
I always thought nothing could go wrong until something went wrong and ended costing me 300GB of sensitive data,which i have yet to fully recover.
Since then i've been running 4 x2TB in raid 5 for backup in a external raid box.
Better safe than sorry.
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