I've had plenty of problems with RAID 5 arrays, RAID 0 not so much but that's an expensive way to go.
On 27 October 2014 15:24, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > All Hard Drives will ultimately fail. To prevent valuable loss of your > precious photos please go for a "Hot Swappable Enclosure" running a > "Raid Array". What this means simply is:- > a) You buy an enclosure i) with WiFi connectivity which allows you to > save your files/photos over your Home Network w/o any wires; or ii) > with the old fashioned manual USB 3.0 connectivity - not very > convenient as you need wires. > b) You buy one pair of exactly the same hard drive - some enclosures > allow you two pairs of hard drives increasing your storage capacity. > So a pair of 4 TB hard drives will give you 4 TB storage space - NOT 8 > TB - as the Raid array duplicates data on to the other drive - a > safety insurance. > c) Now if a Hard Drive crashes, you have your photos safe & sound on > the other drive. You pull out the defective hard drive and replace it > with a similar make and model hard drive - please check this piece of > information as my technology may be old. The raid array copies the > files automatically on to the new drive and you carry on as usual. > d) Hot Swappable means you can pull out both the Hard Drives and > insert another pair with the system powered up. Great convenience and > management of your photos. > Thanks for reading. > Regards. > Bipin. > camp: San Mateo, CA > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
