m1abrams wrote: > JJZolx Wrote: >>What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your >>offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 >>array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if >>you think that's inevitable. > > When it comes to backups you can NEVER have too much.
It really is both an emotional and an engineering question. Economics play a big part of the decision process. This is true of any backup situation. If you have the need, you have to have two physical locations preferably a thousand or more miles apart. I have a bit over 700 CDs. at $10 a piece, that is $7,000 worth of music. So if it all was destroyed, I have to look at $7000 plus time to re-rip. There is no way I'm going to spend $25,000 on a backup strategy for $7000 worth of music. I live "inside the Beltway" in the Washington DC area. If the Russians drop a nuke on the Pentagon, my house will be vaporized. If that happens, all my music is gone. But I don't worry about that, because if I'm home at the time, I've got other problems. Or maybe no more problems ever. If I really cared, I bet that there is some SqueezeBox owner in Europe that would be willing to hold a 400GB disk for me while I did the same for them. Access could be instant over the 'net, or via DHL in a couple of days. You can get about anything you want to pay for. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
