William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 107 lines --] > > For my usage, RAID is useless. Better to use separate disks, and rsync. As > most data does not need to be redundant, and you get more storage that way, > with very little to go wrong. > I've never seen the point of RAID in a domestic situation. It's more for providing secure, always available, disk storage, not for providing backup. Apart from anything else if the computer catches fire or is destroyed by some other means (or stolen) then all your data is gone, no matter how redundant the strorage was.
Some sort of off-site, or at the very least 'off system' backup is what's needed to preserve data. -- Chris Green ยท -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
