[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[John D. Todd]

You would probably want RAID 1 if you want the redundancy of them being 
mirrored.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Bryan Baker wrote:

> 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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