[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Bryan Baker]

If you set it up ahead of time you could even make the pair of drives  
into a software RAID 0 array so they'd appear as one volume, and be  
written that way, but would have the same info on each in case of  
failure.

I love the idea of Time machine btw - with a nice big FW800 drive (or  
RAID)...
That's something to discuss tonight!

On Aug 22, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:
> I hadn't thought that Ray. That's a good idea. More affordable per  
> gigabyte too. I've got about 400GB in total. Two drives where one  
> is the backup of the other, would do nicely and for less dollars  
> than a media jump today.
>
> Hmmm, thanks for this kind fo feedback.
>
> Darcy
>
> On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 12:40PM, Ray Bowler  
> <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a wild one. You don't say how large the total is but you
>> might try this. Buy two good external firewire drives--500 GB say.
>> Copy your material to both of them at the same time. When they get
>> full (or in about three hears) buy two which are double in size, copy
>> your material over and continue adding with the latest technology. Of
>> course if the technology changes sooner than that switch when you
>> need to do so.
>>
>> Like I say--wild but it might work
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