On 27 December 2011 21:35, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
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> I'm wondering if I'm "missing a trick" here - perhaps someone can help...*
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> I have a pretty big (already 2TB and likely to be nearer 4TB+ by the time
> I've finished) media library (all mpgs) - how should
Hi Leo,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26:54AM +, Leo wrote:
> As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this (assuming we're talking about
> RAID1 or better, rather than RAID0). It will protect against hdd failure but
> that's all.
If the time to restore the service (e.g. by rebuilding the ser
On 28 December 2011 11:34, Gordon Scott wrote:
> That depends upon the RAID level. Raid zero offers no redundancy
> whatsoever, It's sole purpose is to increase throughput.
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> Raid one is disc-for-disc mirroring, so offers 100% redundancy and it
> therefore a data backup, though of course it als
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:34:20 +, gor...@gscott.co.uk said:
> After some questions on this list a little while back, I'm using
> BackupPC to take overnight backups
Good choice! Highly recommended.
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On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 08:59 +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:26:54 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
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> > As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this ... it will protect
> > against hdd failure but that's all.
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> And that is all it is meant to do (OK, some RAID configurati
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:26:54 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
> As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this ... it will protect
> against hdd failure but that's all.
And that is all it is meant to do (OK, some RAID configurations will also
provide increased throughput).
Do not confuse RAID wi
As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this (assuming we're talking about
RAID1 or better, rather than RAID0). It will protect against hdd failure but
that's all. It won't protect against an accidental delete or a data error when
writing to the disks (as happened to me). If you want backup I
On 27/12/2011 16:35, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
I'm wondering if I'm "missing a trick" here - perhaps someone can help...
I have a pretty big (already 2TB and likely to be nearer 4TB+ by the time I've
finished) media library (all mpgs) - how should I be making this available over
my network? D
On 27 December 2011 16:35, Rob Malpass wrote:
> I can't be the only one with a huge DVD and video library but the majority
> of drives I've seen on the high street are 2-3TB.
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I use an HP Microserver with 4x2TB drives and Linux software RAID.
Works well for that.
Al.
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Hi all
I'm wondering if I'm "missing a trick" here - perhaps someone can help...
I have a pretty big (already 2TB and likely to be nearer 4TB+ by the time
I've finished) media library (all mpgs) - how should I be making this
available over my network? Does anyone know of a device that wil
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