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Backups of Media? How do you handle it?
Zirro:
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--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 28, 2011, 06:37:16 AM ---Contact them and contact other Internet providers in your area and see their plans about Business Class and see what Tiers they offer. It should cost you roughly about 20% more to get unlimited bandwidth and to have all ports open and possibly if your lucky you get static IP which is somewhat good.
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I might kill someone to get business class for only 20% price increase. Where I am, consumer 25 Mbps is $55/mo; business 25 Mbps is $130/mo.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on March 28, 2011, 10:09:31 PM ---I manually back up all of my internals because those are more sensitive than my externals. My externals are only used for Anime purposes only which, ... I mean ... a total of 11TB+ (about 4TB of free space) of anime. So if I do a RAID on them I guess that could work too. I just don't understand the levels or numbers after the word RAID. Like RAID 0 or RAID 5.
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Wikipedia is always a good place to start. The tldr is this:
RAID 0 - every disk is duplicated. 2 disks gives you 1 disk's worth of usable space.
RAID 5 - one disk used for recovery magic.
RAID 6 - two disks used for recovery magic.
It's worth noting that RAID (well, not RAID 1) provides redundancy, which does not replace backups. Redundancy will only help if a disk dies - you'll need backups to deal with accidental deletion, file corruption (depending on the reason), malware, fire, theft, and a number of other things. If you're ok with that, you'll save money, but be aware of the risks.
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I think you have RAID 0 and RAID 1 mixed up. RAID 1 is the one that gives you redundancy with only one disks space, and RAID 0 (which was originally not one of the RAID levels) is pretty dangerous as it is used to link together two or more hard drives to appear as one. Once one of the RAID 0 hard drives crashes, the information on all other hard drives is partially damaged too.
Freedom Kira:
^ Yes he does.
Just remember that RAID 0 means no R(edundancy). Pretty simple way to remember.
Pentium100:
Yea, RAID0 is worse than no RAID since in the event of a drive failure you will lose all of the data in the array as opposed to just the data that was in the drive.
JBOD is a bit better in that regard but is still worse than separate drives.
HiddenJumper:
I currently don't back up anything because I don't have the money to purchase HDDs (lack of a job). I do have a 500 GB internal for the primary OS and programs and a secondary 1TB internal for all personal data and multimedia items (music, images, etc). I have a 500 gb external I use for my anime. Anything 1080p I throw into my TB internal.
I wish I could back up my external stuff because my external is about 4 years old (while my internals are between 3 months to 2 years old). I just don't trust me external anime, which is why I don't download anime for keeps as much as I used to.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: Zirro on March 29, 2011, 09:50:47 AM ---I think you have RAID 0 and RAID 1 mixed up.
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Oh right, silly me. I've edited my post to avoid any future confusion.
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