She wants a live backup, not monthly ones. The drobo advantage is plug in and forget, also AFAIK, you can stick any drives in that drobo, in a build you own RAID scenario, you need matched drives for the best results. I'd not replace the lacie drive for the reason just mentioned.
Watch out for the new WD 'green' drives, not to be used for RAID. I'm doing the same thing you are talking about with a pair of 1 TB drives. I have a third drive for offline backup. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Tony B <ton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Avoid RAID like the plague if at all possible. For photo work there is > absolutely no reason for it. It just complicates the system, which is > the antithesis of backup. Instead, use that second drive to alternate > monthly backups, always keeping alternate backups off site. > > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Julie Kubal <julieku...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > On last week's show, one of the guys recommended a DROBO for external > hard > > drive storage . I looked into it and I think this might be overkill for > what > > I need, plus the up front cost is too high for me. I think I just want to > > have a RAID 1 (mirrored RAID) setup to back-up my photo archive. I > currently > > have two sets of two Lacie D2 Quadra 250 GB drives, each pair set up in a > > mirrored RAID, but they are now completely full. I was thinking about > going > > with the Lacie 2TB 2big Quadra 2-Disk RAID Hard Drive next. It looks like > > this is the same concept as the DROBO, but just not expandable: basically > an > > enclosure that allows for easy RAID configuration. I'm a Mac user and > will > > be using Lightroom to access the external drives at times. > > > > My questions are: > > Is there any advantage to getting this kind of set up rather than two > > individual 1 TB drives that I set up in a RAID 1 configuration myself > like > > I've done in the past? > > Is there any other advantage with the DROBO that I'm missing if I just > need > > a RAID 1? > > From the reviews I've read, it seems like every manufacturer has it's > fans > > and nay-sayers, but basically all drives are susceptible to failure at > some > > point. Can anyone on the list chime in with opinions on manufacturers? I > > looked into Western Digital too, but some of the negative reviews > > specifically mentioned that the WD drives tended to unmount themselves, > > which would be particularly inconvenient with Lightroom running. > > Lastly, after many years of reliable use, one of my old Lacie drives has > > failed. I have the other half of the RAID as backup. I'd like to rebuild > the > > RAID and was wondering if I could just open up the enclosure with the bad > > drive and replace it. Is that a bad idea or is it pretty straightforward > and > > easy to do? > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
