On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:05 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
> > > dear all,
> > >
> > > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
> > [...]
> >
> > Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
> > 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
> > make a software RAID array out of them.
>
> wow! they've come down that much in price! neato.
>
> just googled, and discovered 1TB hard-disks are also available, but
> dunno if they're available in india yet.
Price/GB is significantly more expensive for these, at least last when
I looked. You can get them in India, however.
> >Splurge on another Rs. 1.5K
> > for a good USB/IDE interface, and you have instant access to the
> > stored data.
>
> so you're saying i could use a usb2 hub, plug in 500GB hardisks
> slapped into usb-casings connected to this hub, and run a raid?
Erm, no. Sorry for conflating two things. Use RAID-1 for data that
you really care about. It will be stored transparently, with a backup
on a separate disk. The USB/IDE interface is for having large amounts
of data in a mobile medium. Reliability is lower, probably largely due
to physical shock to the drive when lugging it around. Here is what I
currently have, as an example.
Home computer:
o 300GB drive: No RAID, for data that I can afford to lose.
o Two 500GB drives in a RAID-1 configuration, i.e., 500 GB of
automatically backed-up storage, for data that I want to preserve.
Portable disk:
o A 300GB IDE drive, with a USB/IDE interface that lets me plug it
in wherever I go. I was even kind enough to leave 25GB as a VFAT
filesystem for sharing data with lesser operating systems. If I
care enough about the pr0n^Wmovies^Wsome data on this drive, I
copy them to the RAID drives.
Regards,
Gora
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