BoatBanter.com - Greg, speaking of following the money...

On 9/8/13 1:46 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
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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.....

The problem with not backing up operating systems and programs is that
it takes a hell of a lot of time and attention to reinstall them. When I
got my iMac with the new HD in it yesterday, I ran a "Time Machine"
restore, went out for lunch, and when I came back an hour and a half
later, the new HD was up and running with all the contents it had on it,
just as it was the day before I took the iMac up to the apple store. All
I had to do was type in my system password.