1 Nov 2011 15:08
Re: Storage Dilemma rant (complaining)
If speed isn't a high priority, Buffalo makes a nice 2 disk USB unit that you can swap out with hard drives as you need to upgrade. With the two hard drives you could set it up as a mirror and get a level of redundancy while also having something pretty portable as far as being able to just pick it up and go somewhere. Also, as far as RAID goes, you could start out small... Get three cheap drives (say 500gb) or something that's in your price range and set them up as RAID5. This won't hold all your data but you could add one drive at a time and grow your RAID as funds allow. After about 7-8 hard drives you'd want to probably break out into a second raid array or re-think your existing array and maybe start upgrading (i.e. swapping out for much larger hard drives). But that could be an option as well. On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Michael Burek <mike@...> wrote: > 2TB on DVDs is a lot of DVDs. > If your DVDs are getting old, you can always burn new ones to replace > the old ones, but that's going to take a long time. > While it is a bit of money, if you look at the value, buying a spare > 2TB hard drive is the best way to go to store your backups. You can > find deals with them around $55-$65. > You get a long life, smaller physical volume space than the DVDs, > reading and writing is much easier and faster, and it can be rewritten > or repurposed. > Isn't 2TB of DVD about 250 DVDs? That is about $50 of DVDs there > anyway, so a hard drive would be better. Plus, you can move a hard > drive off site for backup much easier than a stack of DVDs. > > Mike B(Continue reading)
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