Hi Ryan I agree after seeing that you backup to other media too. sorry for the misunderstanding. greetings Markus
>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ryan Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:45 PM >>To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net >>Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity? >> >> >>Markus Maurer wrote: >>> Hi Ryan >>> this is a real and dangerous misunderstanding of the purpose of Raid >>> technology IMHO. >>> Raid keeps your system running if one drive fails at a time but >>would not >>> help against software corruption, >>> (user) deletion of files, fire, theft and many more..... >>> >>> greetings >>> Markus >>> >>> >>> >>> >>That's why the "backup copy" is on non-spinning spindles off-site. See >>my original message. >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Ryan K. Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:38 PM >>>>> To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net >>>>> Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I store all my photos and scans on a dedicated RAID 5 setup. In my >>>>> case, I built one using a 3ware card, my old PC, a gig-e card and >>>>> FreeBSD. Today, I'd probably buy something like the ReadyNAS NV. I >>>>> make backups to firewire disks and store those off-site. >>>>> >>>>> To me, this is the only way to make sure my files survive. >>>>> -Ryan >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>
