- /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools
can help you monitor your HDDs
- RAID 0 doubles the chances of HDD failure and thereby data loss
- DVDs and CDs are chronically unreliable, see the 14/2005 issue of the
German c't magazine where they tested CD/DVD burners and media
and found out that a lot of media are neither burnable nor readable
by a lot of CD/DVD drives
- But since you need high performance on your HDDs and backup to tape,
you're probably fine
- A hybrid approach of backing up data to a separate box
and to some removable media is probably the best.
And, nowadays at least, not even that expensive,
e.g. Mini-ITX boards are cheap and fast enough for this purpose.
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