On 31 Jul 2005 at 20:32, Mishka wrote: > at this point, i am keeping two copies of everything, one on HD and > one on DVDs stored away in the basement. this is pretty far from > perfect, so at the same time trying to find a way to come up with cash > to get a real RAID-5 storage system (unfortunately little boys don't fetch > nearly as much as girls...)
This is what I do but I have the RAID 5 in place and my B/U DVDs live in fireproof storage. If you pick drives two models down from the current top capacities and use a Promise H/W RAID card or similar it actually works out relatively inexpensive. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
