I guess that I just feel that a comprehensive backup solution should be primarily for irreplaceable or original content--documents, home movies, pictures, etc. IMO, redundancy (mirror or striping with parity) is a sufficient level of protection for mass content that you speak of.
My biggest concern, however, is with big manufacturers starting to ship out high-performance machines with striped arrays for the marginal (if any) performance improvement, with no warning of the increased risk of data loss. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:14 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Here comes the terabyte hard drive > > Downloaded content like music & video comes to mind. > Backup will be #2 > use for Blue-ray or HDDVD burners when the become > cheap enough. > > Certainly not often or even in frequent 1 shot full > backup situation, > but needs some degree of backup none the less. If my > 100GB+ of Mp3's > died I'd loose both time & money replacing them if not > for some degree > of backups. So I incremental backup to DVD-R every few > months, full once > a year or so. > > In a few years households will have multi-TB NAS > setups (likely with > built in high capacity discs burners or removable &/or > spare HDD's for > backups) simply because "files" is how all content is > going to end up > and inaccessibility will be king. MP3 & Video's like > TV shows/movies > which are just easier to enjoy when stored centrally > and accessed from > menus rather than digging out a CD or DVD disc. > > Storage is cheap, buy a few 1TB drives, use one for > main storage, > another for online backups, a 3rd for offline backups, > etc... > > Greg Sevart wrote: > > Is there really 1.0TB of home user data that needs > to be backed up? I run > > nightly backups on my machine. Out of over 4TB, > there's only about 15GB that > > I consider essential enough to back up. > > > > On the commercial side, the problem already exists > with storage arrays of > > multiple TB or more. High-dollar LTO-3 autoloaders > can resolve the backup > > situation there. > > > > Greg > >
