I recomed an external USB backup drive ,the main thing is that it is not powered and does not run all time but you back up regularly better to have 2 usb drives (if your really OCD) so that you can take one drive even weeks/months and the other one odd weeks/months if some corruption or tagging mistake have crept in you can take two steps back .
I think Abuti clearly laid out why in his post in this tread as the data is immediately mirrored to the other drive you get the same corrupt data on both drives . So when you discovers the the files are rubbish they are equally rubbish on both drives . http://www.2brightsparks.com/resources/articles/RAID-is-not-a-backup-solution.html http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup RAID is mostly a protection against downtime not data loss the server survives a disc failure , if you run a business with 24/7 uptime this is necessary but even if you do you still need an external backup , so why not just settle for the external backup in a home setting ? https://www.google.com/search?q=RAID+is+not+a+backup ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98350 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
