On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > By the way, how is the best way to overcome the problem of destruction by > fire, severe storm or theft? > I use Amazon S3, but will probably switch because it's more expensive than a few of the newer services. There's been no time to research this. > Can the drives be shuffled to an data storage fireproof safe, and if so how > does that affect the Raid? I know nothing about this but to have redundancy > without taking the final step for the items above I would think I would > need units inside a data fireproof safe??? > No. Drobo is sort of a RAID5, so the data and redundancy files are smeared across all the drives. The redundancy data allows you to rebuild a replaced drive from the others. Because of the redundancy data, you don't get to use all the drive space installed. What you get is about the sum of all the drives minus the largest drive. There are lots of other RAID boxes out there and many are cheaper than the DROBO. I picked the DROBO because it's so simple even my dog could get it running. -dan
_______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
