Good to hear you're pleased and having fun, and I don't mean to burst your bubble, just to help...
jsunandmax;186363 Wrote: > Last weekend i picked up another 750gb, so now i have full redundancy. > So nice to feel my data (music only) is backed up! What would happen if: - the Infrant's power supply dies, sending out a power surge as it does? (It has happened.) Both drives could be damaged. - you get a virus? The array would happily copy it onto the redundant drive as well. - you accidentally delete something you didn't want to? Both drives in the array would reflect the change, you couldn't go back. - you have a house fire? All gone. RAID isn't really a backup. It's for server availability, so that you can keep a server up if one of the drives fail. A good, practical solution is the use of an external drive in a USB enclosure with periodic manual backups. The further away you store the drive, the better protected you'll be. You could back up over your network as well, and you can automate the process, although that doesn't address several of the failure modes proposed above. This gets tricky once the drives get full though, but hopefully by then there will be 1 TB drives. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33415 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
