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From: "Andrew S. Baker" <[email protected]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?
*>> Few people have a need for RAID in a home file storage solution
unless
it's to construct a very large volume that can't easily (or safely) be
achieved with individual disks. *
I would think that in large part, this list would contain most of the
"few
people" who are great candidates for RAID1, 5 or even 10.
What's so special about the home server needs of the folks on this list?
Disks are cheap enough that it is silly to avoid RAID, when you can
easily
have BOTH RAID and backups.
But RAID solutions - reliable ones, anyway - are not cheap. Even ones
targeted for home users. And the unreliabe one are much worse than using
no RAID at all.
My home network can ill afford to be down for days.
Like you say, disk drives are cheap. Cheap enough to keep spares on hand.
A failed disk should take no more than a few hours to restore from backup.
For some odd reason having your home movies from the trip do Disneyland
offline for a couple of hours doesn't strike me as a critical need.
How long do you figure the data of the typical home user of a RAID box is
offline when the _box_ fails?
Just yesterday, I had
my switch die on me at home, and it totally disrupted a number of fairly
critical activities -- like online home school. So that got remediated
last
night.
You keep spare routers and switches on hand at home? Very forwward
thinking if you really can't afford the down time. Or did you run out to
Best Buy?
People are enamored with technology. What's funny is that the most
clueless home users have the same outlook on using RAID technology as a
backup solution. I wouldn't think that I'd see the same mistaken
assumptions made by people responsible for managing business networks in
their day jobs.
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