Re: Storage Robot for your Home

[Pete Shew <pslists@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have always (well as long as I can remember) synchronised my
important
stuff across two computers - my current setup has the primary (shared)
data on a Linux file server which is synchronised to my XP desktop, and
that is then synchronised to a SATA drive in an Icybox caddyless bay.
This latter drive is regularly swapped with another, and the one not in
the bay lives in a fire safe.

I have regularly thought about raid but it seems the complications and
potential problems outweigh the advantages of failsafe running. I can
afford downtime, but would be devastated by loss of data.

Pete

Mal Lansell wrote:
> Lol.
>
> I've been juggling the various storage option balls for ages now, and
I
> still haven't decided which way to go.
>
> I thought I'd just use DVDs as backup, but a 500Gb drive is a lot of
> DVDs, and with HD movies such as King Kong taking up 25Gb, the amout
of
> space to back up could get quite silly very quickly.
>
> The problem with RAID (for me) is that the controller might fail or
> become obsolete.  Because my storage needs are just for media (i.e the
> data isn't changing) I'm starting to lean towards the idea of backing
up
> with a duplicate set of hard disks (disconnected and stored elsewhere,
> rather than powered up and in the same box in a RAID array).
>
> However, the DVD option is still tempting, because the odds of a drive
> failure within the first three years are pretty slim, and by then I
> could probably transfer everything onto a single drive!
>
> Decisions, decisions...
>
> Mal
>