[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Bryan Baker]

Yup, was just about to post a correction. Good catch.

On Aug 22, 2006, at 1:51 PM, John D. Todd wrote:
> 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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