On Sunday, 8 September 2013 14:46:25 UTC-3, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,

says...



On 9/8/2013 12:21 PM, wrote:

On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 10:18:02 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



On 9/8/13 10:07 AM, wrote:

On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:03:19 -0400, Earl wrote:



wrote:

On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:15:04 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



Why not RAID them? With 4 drives you can set up a fairly high

efficiency array and have a soft failure of any single drive. With

some controllers you don't even need to bring the system down to swap

out the bad drive. The whole thing is invisible to the OS.

SATA hardware itself is hot swap capable.



He can't afford to pay his taxes. Do you really think he can afford a

$1500 Raid controller?



$1500?



More like $40 and most SATA controllers support RAID. You may have to

pay a little more for RAID 5 but not much





My little server is running under RAID. Something called Synology Hybrid

RAID (SHR) with data protection of 1 disk fault-tolerance. I'm not sure

what the hell that means, actually.





That does sort of look like RAID 5.

Is that "backup" drive actually just the conglomerate "wasted" drive

in a RAID array?

Basically RAID 5 writes "stripes" across all of the drives in the

array and the way they are laid out, you have one more drive than the

amount of data you can store. When you lose one, the data can be

recovered from the stripes on the other drives.

You can hot swap out the bad one and the system will restore the array

while you work.



I am going the other way with mirroring. It is less efficient in drive

usage but even if you lose the array, you only lose that block of

data. (one drive's worth)





I guess I am simple... I have three external drives, all have all of my

work and files, don't back up systems and programs, don't steal them,

have the install disks and if I have to rebuild I like to start from

scratch anyway... I do have one cloud account for two folders of

recent artwork and business files too... but I really don't know much

about it, I put stuff in, it backs it up at night... Supposed to be

always there for me, I sure hope so



Wow, this from the alleged purveyor of technical support.....


~~ SNERK ~~
Oh boy.. his former customers didn't realize what shaky ground they stood on.