Ha! End-losers never backup anyway, so no real increased-risk there! Hopefully as the content market evolves it will not be such a hassle to get copies of what you pay for, and those copies will hopefully by then not be so laden with DRM as to force you to download them illicitly thus making them so valuable that they need to be backed up in the 1st place.
Until then... You will need at least 2 if not 3 drives if your content matters, not considering performance or online redundancy since mirror and stripe won't protect you from the delete key. Of course multi-RAID groups, each doing a specific task is ideal, but I don't see that being affordable anytime soon. Hell I priced out a home brew NAS that took into account what I wanted & stopped at $3000 for online (stripe), nearline(parity), offline(JBOD) RAID, DVD-R burner (input/archive) storage of my data. Greg Sevart wrote: > I guess that I just feel that a comprehensive backup solution should be > primarily for irreplaceable or original content--documents, home movies, > pictures, etc. IMO, redundancy (mirror or striping with parity) is a > sufficient level of protection for mass content that you speak of. > > My biggest concern, however, is with big manufacturers starting to ship out > high-performance machines with striped arrays for the marginal (if any) > performance improvement, with no warning of the increased risk of data loss. > > Greg > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- >> >> Downloaded content like music & video comes to mind. >> Backup will be #2 >> use for Blue-ray or HDDVD burners when the become >> cheap enough. >> >> Certainly not often or even in frequent 1 shot full >> backup situation, >> but needs some degree of backup none the less. If my >> 100GB+ of Mp3's >> died I'd loose both time & money replacing them if not >> for some degree >> of backups. So I incremental backup to DVD-R every few >> months, full once >> a year or so. >> >> In a few years households will have multi-TB NAS >> setups (likely with >> built in high capacity discs burners or removable &/or >> spare HDD's for >> backups) simply because "files" is how all content is >> going to end up >> and inaccessibility will be king. MP3 & Video's like >> TV shows/movies >> which are just easier to enjoy when stored centrally >> and accessed from >> menus rather than digging out a CD or DVD disc. >> >> Storage is cheap, buy a few 1TB drives, use one for >> main storage, >> another for online backups, a 3rd for offline backups, >> etc... >> >> Greg Sevart wrote: >>> Is there really 1.0TB of home user data that needs >> to be backed up? I run >>> nightly backups on my machine. Out of over 4TB, >> there's only about 15GB that >>> I consider essential enough to back up. >>> >>> On the commercial side, the problem already exists >> with storage arrays of >>> multiple TB or more. High-dollar LTO-3 autoloaders >> can resolve the backup >>> situation there. >>> >>> Greg >>> > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
